Climate change

About 56,000 households in North were without electricity at 4.30pm on Monday afternoon, according to Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks

Pulling out of Paris Agreement was predictable theatre, but resulting temperature and emission rises will push Earth to dangerous tipping points

Waterford-based artist Sean Corcoran wants us to think differently about excess of all kinds, through the medium of unwanted mugs, jugs and plates

Maura Adshead, whose home was damaged, believes extreme weather is linked to climate change

How to help? Plant wildflowers, avoid using chemicals and get comfortable with messy, neglected areas

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology is hailed as a panacea for concerns about electricity supply and flexibility, but can it be made to work?

It won’t be the last time we’re catapulted briefly back into a world of abrupt school closures. So why are decisions on online learning being left up to individual schools?

No legal obligation for businesses that stay open to pay staff who feel they cannot attend, but owners should be mindful that loyalty may ‘pay off’, says business group

Latest outbreak stokes fears in California, already devastated by two weeks of infernos that killed at least 28, destroyed 15,000 structures and left thousands displaced

As CAP payments are oriented towards sustainability, nature-friendly farming can secure reliable funding for farms in an increasingly unreliable global marketplace

The EU circular economy action plan aims to reduce pressure on natural resources through re-use and repair but Ireland’s recycling rate is far below the European average

Having othered nature throughout history, we continue to do so in Ireland. Once you demonise something, it is easy to discount it

Trump says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker. If he delivers on his promises on oil and gas expansion, he’ll be remembered as an Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned

From withdrawing the US from the World Health Organisation to renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Trump was quick to sign several orders on his first day back in office

Ireland regularly reports having Europe's highest rates of the potent STEC strain

World Economic Forum (WEF) adopts new measures but business elites don’t seem to be biting

Move reflects US president’s scepticism about climate change and his wish to free US oil and gas drillers from regulations

A perverse trade in any dystopia you believe may soon be reality is brisk. Buyers can purchase shares in how likely it is that 2025 will be the hottest year on record or if a nuclear weapon will detonate soon

Haven’t got a thing to wear? Save money, save the planet, and look fabulous in hired occasion wear

A resurgent repair culture has a bottom-up energy, but change is also coming from the top, with the EU’s Right to Repair Directive

Decisions taken now will shape our prosperity for decades. There is no room for further procrastination

British environmentalist and BBC presenter Chris Packham on battling to save the planet, standing up to his enemies, and how his autism made him hate himself

Planet Business: Meta’s non-regrettable attrition, Starbucks’ new code of customer conduct and performers signed-up for Donald Trump’s inauguration

Ella McSweeney: We will not reach our nature restoration goals without urgent action

The maths professor and biodiversity advocate on why she has no career regrets, the last time she got angry and her psychological quirk

Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’

An Bord Pleanála approved less than half renewable energy capacity needed to reach Government’s 2030 target, WEI planning report finds

Absence of climate ambition, continuity rather than scaled-up targets and vague language stand out

The incoming government must do more to encourage EV ownership as sales have slumped

Ireland must take ‘big leaps as distinct to small steps’ in developing renewables, says SSE chief

The concept is an eco-centric approach which is nature-led and human-enabled

‘Reaching renewable electricity targets in 2030 could cut consumer bills by an additional €610 million’

Department of Justice will incorporate home affairs and migration

New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva

On screen, Los Angeles has endured meteor strikes, alien invasions and Sharknados. Now it’s starring in an all-too-real disaster story

Some 8,500 firefighters prevent wildfires from growing for second day in row

Regulator’s report also suggests State is struggling to rein in emissions from agriculture or get the necessary uptake in electric vehicles

Obfuscation, delays and denial are being used by national political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, and similar tactics can also be found closer to home

Apocalyptic scenes could have come from the storyboard of a blockbuster movie

The film industry’s highest honours will now be announced on Thursday, January 23rd