Environment

Climate crisis: Putting a fossil fuel company CEO in charge of Cop28 is ‘totally ridiculous’, says former US vice-president

Protection of Hedgerows Bill is supported by the Bar of Ireland’s Natural Justice Campaign, Hedgerows Ireland and Green TDs, and will go before the Oireachtas in the new year

Sultan Al-Jaber made comments in ill-tempered responses to Mary Robinson

Carbon-capture and storage technologies to be deployed to meet climate targets, Ryan confirms

US, UK, Canada, France and South Korea among countries signing declaration to triple capacity from 2020 levels, but climate activists brand pledge ‘self-serving’

Vice-president Kamala Harris points to $400 billion in climate subsidies as UAE announces pledge by 50 big fossil firms to cut methane emissions

The taoiseach Leo Varadkar has addressed the Cop28 climate summit where he pledged €25 million to assist poor countries irrevocably harmed by climate change.

Planet Business: Virgin Atlantic’s sustainable aviation fuel flight, Charlie Munger’s one-liners and the new prime minister of New Zealand

The problem of light pollution is growing by the year, upsetting our body clocks and possibly disturbing the roosting of starlings

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Hazardous travel conditions are expected with freezing fog adding to challenges facing drivers

Cop28 president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber said the "UAE feel the urgency of the climate crisis" at the opening ceremony of the UN climate summit in Dubai. Video: PA

Global stocktake means there will be no place to hide for countries not delivering on emission cuts

Mr Ewing’s work with environmental NGOs ‘was crucial in advocating for the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis and continues to be of enormous importance’

Minister Malcolm Noonan to announce next steps in conservation programme in ‘very near future’

The maiden long-haul flight of a passenger jet powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) was to "prove the sceptics wrong", said Virgin's Richard Branson.

‘Milestone’ transatlantic flight will is using 100% sustainable aviation fuel

COP28 delegates are anxious to boost the world's climate change agenda with firm plans for clamping down on the second-most prominent greenhouse gas – methane.

Seventy per cent of plastic packaging generated in Ireland was incinerated in 2021 with only about 28% recycled

The great spotted woodpecker, new to Irish woodland in recent decades, is causing major headaches for the electricity supply network and even power outages in some areas

Timed phase-out of fossil fuels needed, and should be progressed at climate summit, conference told

Limiting growth of data centres here threatens foreign direct investment, our digital economy and modern life

Game Changers: Peadar Lynch’s Cherry Orchard garden salads are an example of how healthy food can be grown locally, organically and sustainably

There are welcome trends, but the latest science from multiple sources is killing the positive outlook: human-made greenhouse gases are still rising despite big pledges

Migrating woodcock like Ireland's mild, wet winters and arrive from their boreal homes in Scandinavia, Siberia and as far away as China

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

What I Do… Eimear Burke is a druid based in Co Kilkenny and she serves as chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.

‘Our [carbon] pollution levels are pushing us over the edge into catastrophic climate breakdown’ - FoE

Game Changers: Ceding Lime Avenue to traffic in a climate and biodiversity emergency is a backward step

Beyond immediate compensation, politicians argue for a more radical, long-term approach such as relocating buildings off flood plains as climate change is sure to bring more storms

The autumn season has been increasing by a day a year in Ireland

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a washed-up leatherback turtle, a strange fish and the black pheasant of the family

President of the Irish Creamery and Milk Suppliers Association Pat McCormack accused the Government of “enjoying hindering and obstructing farmers” by supporting a cull of dairy cows

Duo challenging legislation under which State officers sought to access their lands at Cloneen bog in Co Longford

Half a million people have been displaced since the rains started in October

TDs criticise pace of delivery of flood relief schemes, and raise questions about the role of the Department of Public Expenditure

Eleven of 21 nesting seabirds species have fallen, five species have remained stable and five have increased

‘Despite decades of warnings from the scientific community, we are still heading in the wrong direction’, says WMO report

Power consumption in country reaches record levels due to increased use of air conditioners, fans and refrigerators

EPA finds overall water quality in rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters ‘not good enough’