In a world where heatwaves will be longer, hotter, drier, and more frequent, now is the right time to start a serious conversation about animal agriculture, writes Paul Gilding.
In a world where heatwaves will be longer, hotter, drier, and more frequent, now is the right time to start a serious conversation about animal agriculture, writes Paul Gilding.
Global warming is screwing up nature’s intricately timed dinner hour, often making hungry critters and those on the menu show up at much different times, a new study shows.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has taken a swipe at Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement.
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The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere grew at record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fuelling a 20-metre rise in sea levels and adding 3 degrees to temperatures, the United Nations has said.
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Exposure to man-made chemicals killed claimed nine million lives in 2015 – one in six of all deaths, researchers have said
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The world's seas are "under threat as never before," the United Nations Secretary-General has told the group's first oceans conference.
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Top climate scientists have warned the world’s political leaders to get ready for more dangerous and “unprecedented extreme weather” caused by global warming.
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Australia's parliament has passed controversial carbon laws after five years of heated debate.
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Scientists are testing the power of trees and plants to clean the air and absorb greenhouse gases in cities in a drive to make new developments carbon neutral.
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G8 leaders will enter crunch talks today with emerging economies including China and India over plans to halt global warming.
MOREFormer Vice President Al Gore called for a “man on the moon” effort to switch all of the United States’ electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years.
MOREThe European Parliament today voted to include airlines in emissions trading, despite concerns from the US.
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Spiralling oil prices should not distract G8 leaders from efforts to draw up a global deal to tackle climate change, a report urged today.
MOREA climate-station on the west coast of Ireland that has grown into an internationally important study centre today celebrates its 50th birthday.
MOREEnvironment ministers from top industrial countries today called for an agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming.
MOREA top US government scientist has performed a U-turn on climate change, saying global warming is not responsible for the recent increase in Atlantic hurricanes.
MOREMillions could face poverty, disease and hunger because rising temperatures and changing rainfall are expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organisation warned today.
MOREClimate change in coming decades will put the squeeze on beer supplies by impeding the production of a key grain needed for the brew – especially in Australia, a climate scientist warned today.
MOREGovernments from nearly 200 countries will launch discussions in Thailand tomorrow on forging a global warming agreement, a process that is expected to be fraught with disagreements over how much to reduce greenhouse gases and which nations should adhere to binding targets.
MOREMinister for the Environment John Gormley says people should "switch off and switch on to a new way of thinking" as part of Earth Hour tonight.
MOREDublin City Council is due to take part in a worldwide initiative tonight in which unnecessary lights will be switched off for an hour to raise awareness of energy consumption.
MOREA tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean is suing two dozen oil, power and coal companies, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to the global warming they say threatens the community’s existence.
MORETrade unionists and green campaigners in the UK joined forces today in a bid to tackle climate change.
MOREIreland is to face some of the toughest targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU.
MOREEurope’s airlines face pollution limits for the first time following a deal struck in Brussels this afternoon.
MOREDemand for electricity peaked for 2007 across Ireland yesterday evening, Minister for Energy Eamon Ryan today told the Dáil.
MOREThe EU was accused of hypocrisy and weakness today for compromising on a car pollution crackdown just days after claiming it was taking the lead on climate change.
MOREClimate-change critics complain they have been kept out of the international debate by mainstream scientists who dismiss them as oil industry lobbyists or lunatics.
MOREAttempts to forge a road map for a new international climate-change agreement are entering their final day today amid accusations the US is trying to wreck the deal.
MOREIncreases in vehicle use are preventing Ireland from meeting its CO2 reduction targets, according to new figures out today.
MORECampaigners tonight urged countries to name and shame the US for its “blatant attempts to derail” the negotiations for an international deal on climate change.
MOREAttempts to forge agreement on a new international climate change deal are at a “make-or-break” stage, Minister for the Environment John Gormley warned today.
MOREHumanity faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon warned today.
MOREClimate change delegates from Europe and America went head-to-head today over whether to include guidelines for greenhouse gas emissions in the plan for a new international agreement.
MOREAl Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today and called on humanity to mobilise at once against the dangers of a changing climate.
MOREAttempts to begin negotiations on a new international climate change deal appeared to have hit difficulties today as the US said it did not want specific targets for global emission cuts in the “roadmap”.
MOREAl Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.
MOREEurope’s leaders will stamp their carbon footprint all over Europe’s new reform treaty this week.
MOREThe Labour Party has today called for an integrated approach among various Government departments to the issue of climate change.
MOREChina, the world’s second-biggest source of greenhouse gases, today insisted that global warming was a problem for richer countries.
MOREA week-long conference aimed at producing a definitive guide to global warming began today.
MOREMillions are being wasted on energy inefficiency in homes throughout the North, new research claimed today.
MOREAl Gore’s climate change campaign which led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize today was criticised as one-sided sentimental mush which could lead to global instability, not peace.
MOREAl Gore said today that global warming was not a political issue but a worldwide crisis.
MOREFormer US vice president Al Gore has shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it was announced today.
MOREClimate change campaigner Al Gore is favourite to win the Nobel Peace Prize announced tomorrow.
MOREWorld leaders attending an annual Pacific Rim summit will call for urgent progress in stalled global trade talks, according to a draft statement, but their officials struggled today to find consensus on another issue – climate change.
MOREClimate experts from more than 100 countries opened a week-long UN conference in Vienna, Austria, today, seeking tougher commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions and turn the tide on global warming.
MOREClimate campaigners in the UK are warning of a day of direct action against Heathrow airport today in the campaign to stop the airport authority building a fifth runway.
MOREIreland has been identified as one of the countries holding back the EU's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
MOREUS President George Bush, seeking to blunt international criticism of the US record on climate change, today urged 15 major nations to agree on a global emissions goal for reducing greenhouse gases by the end of next year.
MOREEuropean and Asian foreign ministers have agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases, diplomats said today.
MOREFormer US Vice President Al Gore warned that the drive to produce alternative fuels to combat global warming must not create new forms of environmental damage.
MOREInternational delegates have reached an agreement on the best ways to combat climate change, despite efforts by China to water down language on cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions.
MOREChina and the United States are aiming to water down a key climate change report being discussed in Thailand this week.
MOREThe monthly commute by EU parliamentarians from Brussels to Strasbourg produces at least an extra 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, a study commissioned by the EU Greens said.
MORETwenty-two Irish organisations have joined forces to lobby the Government on tackling global warming.
MOREA large group of students has mounted a demonstration outside the Dáil to call for greater government action on climate change.
MOREA top hurricane forecaster has called former US vice president Al Gore “a gross alarmist” for making his Oscar-winning documentary about global warming, 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
MOREAn international global warming conference today approved a report warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress.
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