The United Nations Environment Programme has chosen UCC to lead the way in assisting with their Global Environment Monitoring System for Water, (GEMS/Water).

I congratulate the Irish Examiner for the article of June 3 highlighting the dangers to human health of endocrine disruptive chemicals. However, it’s a pity that the researcher did not mention that fluoride is the one endocrine chemical that the Irish public are exposed to the most, and in far greater concentrations than any other European country.

Wicklow has won a major international "liveable communities" award beating cities and districts in Taiwan, England, Poland and Peru in the process.

TARGETS to stop wildlife and habitats vanishing across the world have not been met – and nature is at risk of further “dramatic” losses without radical action to protect it, the UN has warned.

THE world is heading for a “perfect storm” of soaring demand for food, water and energy by 2030 as the population grows, the British government’s chief scientist warned yesterday.

Glaciers in the Himalayas are at risk of disappearing by the year 2035, according to Ajit Tyagi, Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department.

Experts have began setting up a bird flu early warning system by mapping routes that are taken by migrating species and places where they rest during their annual travel, United Nations officials said today.

According to the UN, all the apes gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang-utans face a very high risk of extinction within 50 years at most.

A THREE-KILOMETRE deep blanket of sooty pollution stretching across southern Asia threatens to inflict untold economic damage to the region and put hundreds of thousands of people at risk, scientists said yesterday.

A judge in Brazil sentenced six men to more than 20 years in prison in the killing of New Zealand yachtsman Peter Blake.

The body of Sir Peter Blake, the champion New Zealand yachtsman killed by pirates in Brazil last week, was today due to arrive in Britain for burial.

Seven men have been arrested in connection with the murder of champion yachtsman Peter Blake and Brazilian police said they were looking for at least one more suspect.

Double America’s Cup winner Peter Blake has been killed by pirates in the Amazon, his race sponsors said today.