Good news alert ⚠️ (it doesn't happen often here): 10 motorways, 17 locations, 131 new fast and ultra-fast EV charging points announced m.independent.ie/irish-news/maj…

Persistent issues with E coli and THMs in small private rural drinking water schemes and the full picture isn't known. EPA Ireland wants it made an offence not to register a scheme which means it doesn't get inspected m.independent.ie/irish-news/e-c…

If you have a rental property with drinking water from a well, you're supposed to be registered as a water supplier & subject to annual inspections. EPA Ireland suspects very few know this. Registration rates are tiny in many counties m.independent.ie/irish-news/tho…

Irish Rail & Dublin City Council want to stop people rummaging in bins for bottles & cans worth cash under the DepositReturnScheme. Health & safety, littering, human dignity & potential compo claims all at play here m.independent.ie/irish-news/com…

Can phytoplankton fight climate change? They already do. Research team led by Prof Brian Ward Brian Ward, AirSeaLab@University of Galway Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway hard at work measuring their impact & the threats they face m.independent.ie/irish-news/iri…

And also a huge thanks to Caroline O'Doherty for her review of The Last Disco for the Irish Independent. "This is an exceptional record of a story that should never have happened." m.independent.ie/entertainment/…

Trinity College has created a new senior academic role - its first Chair of Climate Science. It is funded by one of the country's biggest carbon polluters. m.independent.ie/irish-news/tri…

The EU supported Corncrake/Traonach LIFE project has made small but significant progress since 2021 but it comes to an end next year. National Parks and Wildlife Service say they'll maintain and extend the conservation efforts when it finishes🤞 m.independent.ie/irish-news/cor…

Interesting findings on temperature related deaths in Ireland - deaths from heat to rise rapidly as global heating increases but cold-related deaths will also rise as Ireland is 'disadvantaged by marked ageing of population' m.independent.ie/irish-news/hea…

FF, FG & GP agreed 278 climate & environment related pledges when forming a government in 2020. Friends of the Earth commissioned an assessment drawing on 80 brains to see how the coalition has been getting on with delivering them m.independent.ie/irish-news/rep…

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The head of Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland has big plans for the country's electric vehicle charging network. Just don't mention one million EVs by 2030...... m.independent.ie/irish-news/fro…

Major new Inland Fisheries Ireland report details 'heartbreaking' toll of fish kills on nature and communities over the last 50 years m.independent.ie/irish-news/iri…

What happened behind the scenes after last year's infamous row over an EPA tweet that featured Kim Cattrall & suggested eating less red meat. Sadhbh O' Neill - 🍉End genocide now says public bodies are still scared of broaching the topic m.independent.ie/irish-news/cre…

10 Catholic parishes in Co Clare have given part of their church grounds back to nature. Clare County Council biodiversity officer Barry O'Loughlin who guided them on the rewilding project hopes the country's other 1,300+ parishes do the same m.independent.ie/irish-news/a-l…

Some thoughts on corporate sponsorship of academia - as in the CRH Chair of Climate Science at Trinity - and who it stands to benefit most m.independent.ie/opinion/commen…

Very hard to transition away from fossil fuel electricity when the massive demand of data centres grows faster than new units of wind and solar power can be added - just one of the interesting findings of latest SEAI analysis m.independent.ie/irish-news/win…

Remember how China got fed up of the world dumping bales of low-grade paper & worthless flimsy plastics contaminated by rubbish on it? Could Ireland take a leaf and say no to hosting data centres full of dross that passes for information? m.independent.ie/irish-news/ire…

Trees take carbon out of the atmosphere, right? Not in Ireland where our few, ageing, diminishing forests are now releasing more C02 than they absorb. Climate Change Advisory Council Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland sounds the alarm in latest review of farming & land use m.independent.ie/irish-news/urg…

'Well past time' to clean up Ireland's dying rivers & lakes, says Malcolm Noonan T.D. but Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) fear latest of 3 Water Action Plans isn't strong enough to achieve that this time either m.independent.ie/irish-news/gov…