GLOBAL warming as detailed by the recent reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has potentially serious consequences and poses a very real challenge to each one of us in this country and internationally.

I WISH to congratulate you for publishing the excellent letter from Derry Chambers on the nuclear power industry (Irish Examiner, January 22).

I WISH to congratulate you on publishing so prominently and so clearly the results of the National Cancer Registry county survey (Irish Examiner, July 4-6).

AGE as such does not cause cancer.

Young children should be stopped from using mobile phones for fear of adverse reactions, a doctors’ group warned today.

THE recent report on the quality of drinking water in Ireland, released by the EPA, said that “national compliance for fluoride should be higher”.

TODAY is the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal chemical disaster in India when thousands were killed and tens of thousands continue to suffer ill health as a result of the toxins released by the explosion on that fateful day.

THANK God for the EU and its environmental regulations - I really believe that we would be living in a cesspit without them.

DOCTORS have appealed to parents and schools to discourage children under the age of 16 from using mobile phones.

THE Irish Doctors Environmental Association (IDEA) has long been concerned regarding the high risk of drinking water contamination from poorly designed, poorly sited and improperly used ‘solid’ waste landfill facilities.