When John Malone retired from the boards of Lions Gate and Charter Communications last month, the media and telecom industries shuddered: Was the ‘Cable Cowboy’ finally calling it quits? Not quite.

Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, from 1949, may not be the precise catalyst for the sharpened awareness of our impact on the natural world, but it is as good a point as any to recognise as a kernel moment.

What we need in the wake of last week’s floods is for awareness of the climate challenge to be inherent in every Government decision, writes Victoria White.

Former French president François Hollande and former US vice president Al Gore will speak at this year’s Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech event.

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ might have made for depressing viewing, but Al Gore’s sequel sounds a note of optimism in the fight against climate change and those who are trying to scupper recovery, writes Helen Barlow

As the world’s most famous film festival kicks off, Helen Barlow selects some of the highlights

Sharp divisions over Donald Trump's election as US president have sparked uncertainty about who will participate at his inauguration.

The agriculture sector is responsible for almost one-third of Ireland’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Post truthism has been gestating in the underbelly of the internet for more than a decade, writes Suzanne Harrington

It sounds like a bad political novel, but it’s real, writes Michael Moynihan in Lisbon

The arrival of new people disturbing existing patterns of community is as old as humanity, writes Gerard Howlin

Hillary goes into the second presidential debate tomorrow with rising poll numbers – but she can can still blow it, writes Matthew Cooper

When is a pencil mark a number ‘1’ vote or an inconsequential slip of the hand?

Bill Clinton confided in Tony Blair about his worries for Princess Diana’s sons after her death in remarks that underscore the close relationship between the ex-US president and former British prime minister.

Three Irish students are among 90 finalists from around the world in the Google Science Fair.

India’s Rajendra Pachauri has stepped down as chair of the UN panel of climate scientists, ending 13 turbulent years in charge after allegations of sexual harassment, which he has denied.

Whenever we do stuff like Stoptober or Movember, it’s always to benefit ourselves. Movember is all about showing your awareness of prostate cancer by sporting a great big freshly-grown moustache which gets you extra likes on Facebook, while only the most uni-cellular amongst us need the benefits of stopping smoking in Stoptober spelled out.

President Barack Obama appointed an ebola tsar for the US, and the government said a Texas health worker who may have had contact with specimens from an ebola patient was isolated on a cruise ship.

ON Jan 22 we learnt that, after heated debate between factions, the European Commission pledged that by 2030 it would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% compared with 1990 levels, and produce 27% of its energy from renewable sources by the same date.

Amazon.com is teaming up with Samsung and other media companies to bring “4K” ultra high-definition television to the masses.

A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they finalise the first volume of a huge report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change.

I AM at a photo shoot in London for a big media feature on my book, which is out this week.

Top US intelligence officials say that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programmes run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the US and more than 20 other countries — and that gathered data is destroyed every five years.

The US government has admitted that a top spy agency was using a “crucial tool” against terrorism by sweeping up domestic telephone records, but new revelations on the practice sparked a swift backlash.

IT ALWAYS seemed improbable that Arab sheiks could save journalism.

In the aftermath of the recent conference in Dublin it is evident Mary Robinson has co-opted Al Gore and the theory of catastrophic antropogenic climate change, aka man-made global warming, to her well intentioned campaign to obtain support for peoples who attempt to cultivate agriculturally marginal and non-viable lands, and for others whose land is subject to flooding by rising, relative sea level.

We are using the atmosphere as if it is an open sewer, former US vice-president Al Gore, told a major international conference on hunger and climate change in Dublin yesterday.

President Michael D Higgins has said that hunger crises around the world are created and sustained by gross inequalities.

A quarter of the world's children under five are undernourished, according to UNICEF.

Charities are warning of crippling food price rises here and worldwide if immediate action is not taken to counteract the effects of climate change.

STARRING Jude Law, Rooney Mara, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Side Effects is a gripping medical thriller.

Argentina squared off with a group of US hedge funds in a court case that has the potential to unravel its deals over the past decade to emerge from a $100bn (€76bn) pile of bad national debt.

AM I part of the problem?

IS there, do you think, any real possibility that we will have a general election over the promissory note?