Most people have taken action to help the environment but less than one in four is willing to pay environmental charges or taxes, it has emerged.

“All of us have a responsibility to not alone bring forward the uncomfortable evidence, but to also build optimism through the identification of solutions (and) the celebration of successes."

Ireland won’t come close to meeting its greenhouse gas reduction targets even if the measures set out in the National Development Plan are fully implemented, the Environmental Protection Agency warns.

New radiation protection legislation that requires all employers in high radon areas to test their workplace for the radioactive gas radon has been introduced.

The State’s environmental watchdog has warned that Ireland is not addressing wastewater deficiencies at a “fast enough pace”. The country is facing the threat of EU fines.

The Climate Change Advisory Council will spend the next six months considering the economic effects on agriculture of measures needed to move the sector onto a sustainable path of dealing with climate change challenges.

Ireland needs to prepare for the effects of its changing climate on its economy, warns a report from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Our home heating habits and over-reliance on petrol and diesel cars are the two key areas compromising the quality of the air we breathe — nowhere more so than Longford and Ennis, Co Clare.

Latest:Today's meeting of the Citizen's Assembly has heard Ireland is failing to reach its targets on tackling climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and transport sectors are expected to increase as economic growth improves, according to the latest estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

An Irish-led international study of a key global temperature range has found increasing thermal stress on the environment and further proof of global warming over half a century.

Green party leader Eamon Ryan is is an even-tempered kind of guy, but make the economic argument for keeping Ireland’s only coal-fired power plant going and watch him get hot under the collar.

Greenhouse gas emissions in key trading sectors rose last year, despite falls across the rest of Europe.

Ireland is unlikely to meet its 2020 EU greenhouse gas emission targets and has cast doubt over efforts to become a low-carbon economy.

The chair of the new Climate Change Advisory Council has said the group won’t hold back on criticising the Government for failings in tackling carbon emissions.

LIKE a bright but distracted child, maybe a slightly frightened one, who can’t concentrate long enough at exam time to realise their potential, we seem unable to focus properly on, or even process honestly, myriad warnings about how our relentlessly cavalier attitude towards the environment will eventually change our world utterly — and not by any means for the better.

We live in Ireland as though we had more than three planets at our disposal, not just one, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday.

Ireland is facing a significant challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a visiting group of climate change experts has been told.

Ireland is not on target to reduce damaging greenhouse gas emissions in line with international obligations, the Environmental Protection Agency has warned. With a major carbon reduction deadline looming in five years’ time, the EPA says we may only deliver half the decrease demanded of us.

The EPA wants some 800 sites to lodge millions over the remote fear that their site could be hit by a serious accident.

The Environmental Protection Agency has warned Irish Water it faces a "number of challenges" to provide safe and secure drinking water to the public.

Ireland is likely to miss its EU greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2020 — and faces "considerable challenges" in moving towards a low-carbon economy.

PEOPLE can often be better informed about global environmental issues than what is happening on their doorsteps.

WE can see the effects of climate change outside the front door.

Irish householders need to start moving away from solid fuel and to more environmentally friendly options such as wood burners, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Ireland's air quality is currently among the best in Europe, according to new research.

Ireland’s bathing water is of a high standard, despite the deluge of rain last summer when many areas recorded up to three times their expected levels.

Labour has accused Environment Minister Phil Hogan of breaking new rules on appointments to state boards by expecting Dáil committees to “rubber stamp” his favoured candidates for top jobs.

Environmental infringement procedures taken against Ireland by the European Commission have more than halved over the last three years.

Ireland’s future prosperity depends on protecting the environment and tackling “legacy problems” such as ghost estates, according to a major report.

Two of the country’s 135 premier bathing spots have failed to meet basic water cleanliness standards.

Two beaches fell below minimum hygiene standards for swimmers in the latest study of the country’s bathing areas.

Nearly a third of occupied homes in this country are not using, or have not been offered, a waste collection service, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

BASICS of life, clear water and fresh air, we take for granted.

GREENHOUSE gas emissions have risen in the agriculture, energy and industrial sectors — even though the country’s overall emission figures have fallen.

MORE than 200 delegates from a number of countries will attend a special three-day conference in UCC next week which will focus on Ireland’s future energy and transport needs.

AS an island nation, energy costs and energy sources for transport matter more to us than to most other countries: being competitive while keeping the wheels of motion and transport oiled means considering alternatives to oil and fossil-based fuels.