Increasing tax on fossil fuels will disproportionately hurt low-income earners, single-parent families and rural dwellers unless the revenue generated by it is carefully shared out, new research shows.

Objectors claimed the Britigh government’s policy over the expansion of London’s Heathrow Airport was “in tatters” today after a High Court judge ruled that plans for a third runway must be reconsidered.

Harnessing Ireland’s offshore wind and wave energy is vital to help the country to slash its carbon emissions by 2020, an inaugural Oireachtas Committee said today.

THE Royal Irish Academy’s Committee on Climate Change has added its voice to the growing number of organisations predicting more extreme weather, more floods, more landslides, more rain and the extinction of 20% of native Irish plant species.

A leading climate change consultancy today entered the US market for the first time amid hopes of a business boost from a "greener" president.