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The Sundhnjukagigar volcano
Scientists probe secrets of Earth’s climate past
A team from the University of St Andrews used fossils to work out how much CO2 changed during the Carboniferous and Permian periods between 335 to 265 million years ago

Tue, 14 Jan, 2025

Michelle McKeown: Why Ireland’s surf is just swell in the cold
Michelle McKeown: Why Ireland’s surf is just swell in the cold
Winter is prime time for surfing off Ireland's coasts — and here's why...

Fri, 10 Jan, 2025

Landmark climate change case opens at top UN court as islands fear sea rise
Landmark climate change case opens at top UN court as islands fear sea rise
The United Nations’ top court has taken up the largest case in its history, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their survival.

Mon, 02 Dec, 2024

Climate change case to open at UN court as island nations fear rising seas
Climate change case to open at UN court as island nations fear rising seas
The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history when it opens two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations.

Sun, 01 Dec, 2024

UN climate talks end with funding deal for poor nations to tackle warming
UN climate talks end with funding deal for poor nations to tackle warming
Countries have agreed on a deal to inject at least 300 billion dollars a year into the fight against climate change, aimed at helping poor nations cope with the ravages of global warming at United Nations climate talks.

Sat, 23 Nov, 2024

Cop29 summit: Decision awaited on funding package for poorer nations
Cop29 summit: Decision awaited on funding package for poorer nations
Negotiators will soon decide whether to accept a proposed 300 billion dollar package for poorer nations to curb and adapt to climate change — a plan hammered out early on Sunday by the head of fractured United Nations climate talks.

Sat, 23 Nov, 2024

Hopes of Cop29 deal revived in wake of walkout by small island nations
Hopes of Cop29 deal revived in wake of walkout by small island nations
Hopes of a deal on a giant funding package for poor nations to curb and adapt to climate change have emerged as United Nations climate talks continued in Azerbaijan. A financial package — a compromise between the 1.

Sat, 23 Nov, 2024

Cop29 draft finance deal rejected as negotiators walk out of UN climate talks
Cop29 draft finance deal rejected as negotiators walk out of UN climate talks
The latest rough draft of a deal on climate finance is thought to have been soundly rejected by developing economies at Cop29, a day after the UN summit was scheduled to finish.

Sat, 23 Nov, 2024

EU warns flooding and wildfires show ‘climate breakdown fast becoming the norm’
EU warns flooding and wildfires show ‘climate breakdown fast becoming the norm’
Devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken, the European Union’s head office has said. “Make no mistake.

Wed, 18 Sep, 2024

Summer record puts Earth on track for hottest year
Summer record puts Earth on track for hottest year
Summer 2024 sweltered to Earth’s hottest on record, making it more likely that this year will end up as the warmest on record, European climate service Copernicus said on Friday.

Fri, 06 Sep, 2024

UN chief calls for action on ‘worldwide catastrophe’ of rising seas
UN chief calls for action on ‘worldwide catastrophe’ of rising seas
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a climate SOS to the world to “save our seas.

Tue, 27 Aug, 2024

UN agency predicts 1.5C target limit likely to be surpassed by 2028
UN agency predicts 1.5C target limit likely to be surpassed by 2028
The UN weather agency is predicting an 80% chance that average global temperatures will surpass the 1. 5C target laid out in the landmark Paris climate accord within the next five years.

Wed, 05 Jun, 2024

DCU Centre for Climate and Society annual conference
Mary Robinson: Spend money on climate now or our future will be more grim
Mary Robinson has said money should be spent on climate change measures now or Ireland’s future will be “more grim”.

Tue, 16 Apr, 2024

Swiss women score landmark climate win in European court decision
Swiss women score landmark climate win in European court decision
Europe’s highest human rights court has ruled its member nations must protect their citizens from the consequences of climate change in a landmark ruling that sided with a group of 2,000 Swiss women against their government.

Tue, 09 Apr, 2024

European court hands down mixed rulings on climate goal cases
European court hands down mixed rulings on climate goal cases
Europe’s highest human rights court has thrown out cases brought by six Portuguese youths and a French mayor aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Tue, 09 Apr, 2024

Top European court to rule on climate change obligations
Top European court to rule on climate change obligations
Although activists have had successes with lawsuits in domestic proceedings, this will be the first time an international court has ruled on climate change

Tue, 09 Apr, 2024

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ about climate change
UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ about climate change
The UN weather agency has sounded a “red alert” about global warming, citing record increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice.

Tue, 19 Mar, 2024

Europe ‘not prepared’ for growing climate extremes it faces
Europe ‘not prepared’ for growing climate extremes it faces
Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared for them, the European Environment Agency has said in its first-ever risk assessment for the bloc.

Wed, 13 Mar, 2024

Climate activists including Greta Thunberg block entrance to Swedish parliament
Climate activists including Greta Thunberg block entrance to Swedish parliament
A group of climate activists has blocked the entrance to the Swedish parliament, calling for sweeping reforms to tackle climate disasters.

Mon, 11 Mar, 2024

EU poised to approve plan to meet climate goals despite farmers’ protests
EU poised to approve plan to meet climate goals despite farmers’ protests
The European Union is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the bloc after protests from farmers and opposition from the biggest party in parliament led it to be diluted.

Wed, 28 Feb, 2024

Climate activists target Botticelli’s Birth Of Venus in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery
Climate activists target Botticelli’s Birth Of Venus in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery
Two climate activists have targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece The Birth Of Venus at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.

Wed, 14 Feb, 2024

UN chief: We need fewer loopholes in deals and more cash to fight climate change
UN chief: We need fewer loopholes in deals and more cash to fight climate change
To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money – trillions of dollars a year – into financial help for poor nations, the United Nations climate chief said on ...

Fri, 02 Feb, 2024

Extinction Rebellion activists block highway around Amsterdam
Extinction Rebellion activists block highway around Amsterdam
Climate activists have blocked part of a major ring road around Amsterdam city centre, near the former headquarters of ING bank to protest against its financing of fossil fuels.

Sat, 30 Dec, 2023

Centenary of Seanad Eireann
Robinson criticises Biden for licencing more fossil fuel permits than Trump
Former president calls for heavy taxation on the 'disgusting amount of profit' generated by fossil fuel companies

Mon, 27 Nov, 2023

World struggling to get on track in fight against climate change, says report
World struggling to get on track in fight against climate change, says report
The world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming in 41 of 42 important measurements and is even heading in the wrong direction in six crucial ways, a new international report calculates.

Tue, 14 Nov, 2023

Greta Thunberg
Thunberg joins tens of thousands on streets of Amsterdam for climate protest
Tens of thousands of people have marched through the streets of Amsterdam calling for more action to tackle climate change, in a mass protest just 10 days before a national election.

Sun, 12 Nov, 2023

Autumn weather September 10th 2023
Last 12 months on Earth were ‘hottest on record’
The last 12 months were the hottest Earth has recorded, according to a new report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group.

Thu, 09 Nov, 2023

Irish Budget
Varadkar to raise climate change and global security with South Korean president
Series of meetings will be held to open up new trade, investment and education links between countries

Wed, 01 Nov, 2023

World must end fossil fuel age, says Guterres after visiting melting glaciers
World must end fossil fuel age, says Guterres after visiting melting glaciers
UN chief Antonio Guterres has said the world should end the fossil fuel age to curb what he says is a devastating level of melting of glaciers in the Himalayas due to global warming.

Tue, 31 Oct, 2023

Letters to the Editor: Mystery over RTÉ’s footage of the 1991 Tall Ships Race in Cork
Letters to the Editor: Mystery over RTÉ’s footage of the 1991 Tall Ships Race in Cork
Retired commandant Ray Cawley asks what happened the footage sent each day to RTÉ by Tom McSweeney

Mon, 30 Oct, 2023

Gerard Brady: The ambitious Infrastructure Fund requires reforms and more workers
Gerard Brady: The ambitious Infrastructure Fund requires reforms and more workers
Capacity building and reform will be needed across the regulatory system in licencing bodies, in the planning system, local authorities, and courts where significant backlogs have emerged.

Sun, 22 Oct, 2023

Nature restoration to benefit from new fund of more than €3bn
Nature restoration to benefit from new fund of more than €3bn
Development is hailed as a 'landmark moment' and a 'huge opportunity'

Tue, 10 Oct, 2023

Irish Budget
SF says wealth tax plan would go to a commission
Sinn FĂ©in leaders denied that its alternative budget is conservative

Wed, 04 Oct, 2023

Six young people take on 32 European nations in climate change court case
Six young people take on 32 European nations in climate change court case
Six young people have argued at the European Court of Human Rights that governments across the continent are not doing enough to protect people from climate change.

Wed, 27 Sep, 2023

Fine Gael party think-in
Varadkar defends flying from NY to Miami for less than 20 hours 
The Taoiseach is flying out to officially open the Irish consulate, which has been operational since last year

Wed, 20 Sep, 2023

Climate activists spray Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate with orange paint
Climate activists spray Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate with orange paint
German climate activists sprayed orange paint onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in an attempt to urge the German government to take more urgent action against climate change.

Sun, 17 Sep, 2023

Climate protest
Activists hold protest in Dublin ahead of climate talks at UN
Environmental activists have urged Ireland’s political leaders to act fast on fossil fuels as they head for New York for talks on global climate action.

Sun, 17 Sep, 2023

Oil giants accused in legal action of deceiving public about climate damage
Oil giants accused in legal action of deceiving public about climate damage
The state of California is taking legal action against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that have caused ...

Sun, 17 Sep, 2023

Climate protesters demand end to fossils fuels as Earth heats up
Climate protesters demand end to fossils fuels as Earth heats up
Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world are calling for an end to the burning of fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat.

Fri, 15 Sep, 2023

Energy costs
Time to revisit the debate on nuclear energy, says Fianna FĂĄil MEP
Billy Kelleher hits out at the Government for continuing to dismiss nuclear as a option

Mon, 11 Sep, 2023

Collisons' carbon removal fund makes new commitments
Collisons' carbon removal fund makes new commitments
Frontier fund facilitated the purchase of $7m of carbon removal services from 12 startups on behalf of Stripe

Fri, 08 Sep, 2023

African Climate Summit urges world leaders to back global tax on fossil fuels
African Climate Summit urges world leaders to back global tax on fossil fuels
The first African Climate Summit has ended with a call for world leaders to rally behind a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation and maritime transport.

Wed, 06 Sep, 2023

First African Climate Summit opens in Kenya
First African Climate Summit opens in Kenya
The first African Climate Summit is opening as heads of state assert a stronger voice on a global issue that affects the continent of 1. 3 billion people the most – even as they contribute to it the least.

Mon, 04 Sep, 2023

Africa hosts first climate summit as experts warn continent underprepared
Africa hosts first climate summit as experts warn continent underprepared
Africa’s 1. 3 billion people are on the front line of the climate emergency but most live with little advance knowledge of what is to come.

Sun, 03 Sep, 2023

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