Six Irish cities will have zero emission postal deliveries by the end of the year.

With Budget 2020 set for October 8, and with ‘fiscal space’ of some €700m, is there room for a focus on long-term wellbeing or just short-term tax cuts? Joyce Fegan reports

Friends of the Earth says the move would have made Ireland a world leader in the area.

More than 30 environmental and human rights groups have delivered a devastating critique of the Government's Climate Action Plan describing it as lacking detail, ambition and urgency.

The Government has defended the arrangements of a public meeting on climate change, despite complaints that the public was not told where or when it was taking place.

Kya deLongchamps explores taking a more sustainable approach to outdoor heating for the summer months.

A “well-pitched and well-varied” Leaving Cert higher level English paper left students “beaming” on the first day of their exams.

Don't be fooled by this so-called Green Wave. And climate change deniers and delayers needn’t busy themselves ridiculing those Vega-wearing, Tesla-driving vegans just yet.

Director of environmental group Friends of the Earth Oisin Coghlan outlines five tests for the new all-of-government climate plan.

We’ve a lot to learn from the students who responded to Greta Thunberg’s call for a global strike to protest about accelerating climate change, writes Donal O’Keeffe.

Do we really need to celebrate with boxes and plastic?

Business group, environmental body, and sports organisations get behind plan to fight the threat

Building material group, Kingspan, has partnered with a foundation that removes plastic from the ocean and plans to reuse as much of the plastic recovered as it can in the production of insulation products.

A number of environmental groups have challenged research by the Economic and Social Research Institute that Irish consumers would pay significantly less for their gas if liquefied natural gas, or LNG, facilities were given the go-ahead.

The Irish company that imports coal from a Colombian mine accused of human rights abuses has recorded revenues of €2.3bn.

One of the highlights of a great American film The Graduate occurs during a conversation between a young man who is wondering about his future after graduation and his father’s business partner who offers career advice to the worried youngster. It can be shortened as follows: “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?” Older readers might remember the 1967 film fondly.

It is estimated that over 588 tonnes of waste, which includes beer cans, food wrappers, chairs, inflatable mattresses, clothing – including shoes and coats - goes into a landfill/incinerator after the Picnic.

New research has found that solar panels on homes and businesses can make a significant contribution to Ireland's switch to clean energy.

Latest: The Government Minister charged with overseeing Ireland's new plan to combat climate change has declared it a moral necessity.

Environmentalists have vowed not to be deterred by the US’s rejection of the Paris Climate Change Accord but to use the international outcry to galvanise efforts towards meeting its carbon reduction targets.

BACK TO Ireland to a countryside every bit as lush and lovely as Czech, and a sea as blue as the Med, in the Balearics, if not as warm. 

As environmental groups warn that decisions must be made about the future of the country’s biggest power plant and biggest producer of greenhouse gases, the ESB has said it saves customers up to €200m a year in electricity bills.

One in five cars sold here needs to be electric by 2020 if Ireland is to hit its renewable energy targets and avoid fines of up to €130m.

An Taisce has appealed for members of the public to join nearly half a million other people in signing an online petition in a bid to save Europe’s nature laws.

ENGLAND: Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington’s attempts to film a movie in a London street were thwarted when a bus with a picture of him on it appeared behind him during a scene.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

The European Union plans guidelines for shale drilling under proposals that may facilitate oil and gas extraction using the technique that’s brought the US toward energy independence.