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Further penalties will be imposed until Ireland complies with the 2008 ruling to assess the development

Ireland fined €5m plus penalties over Galway wind farm

Ireland / 4 hrs

Beekeeper Mairéad Doherty

Climate and Me: Beekeeper Mairéad Doherty

Climate Change / 7 hrs

A firefighter works to contain a bushfire near Glen Innes

Australia readies for 'catastrophic' bushfires

It's colourless, odourless, tasteless but C02 is lethal

Climate Change / 11 Nov

Clodagh Donnelly, Maia Dunphy, Paul Cunningham, Phillip Boucher-Hayes, Roz Purcell, Eoin Larkin and Tara Stewart take a closer look at climate change (Pic: Andres Poveda)

RTÉ begins a week-long focus on climate change

Environment / 11 Nov

Climate change toll on Greenland's icebergs unnerving

Climate Change / 11 Nov

Several people are still unaccounted for and 30 more have been injured

Three dead in 'unprecedented' Australian bushfires

Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed their support for the climate pact

Xi, Macron back 'irreversible' Paris climate accord

Proposals include a levy of up to 25c on disposable cups

New levies proposed on disposable cups and plastic bags

Environment / 06 Nov

Image: @GaricoGary

Mysterious foam appears in river in England

News Lens / 05 Nov

Millions of people in Delhi are suffering in poisonous smog

Key facts as Delhi chokes in toxic smog

News Lens / 04 Nov

Mara's passage through the airport gave rise to much excitement among staff and early morning travellers

Turtle washed up during Storm Lorenzo takes flight home

Ireland / 04 Nov

Authorities in Delhi on Friday declared a public health emergency

Air pollution at 'unbearable levels' in India

Paulo Paulino Guajajara had left his village on Friday night to look for water when the attack occurred

Illegal loggers kill Amazon 'guardian of the forest'

News Lens / 03 Nov

Angela Merkel said that Germany would spend €1bn on 'green' urban transport projects in India over the next five years

Merkel urges Delhi to go green amid smog emergency

News Lens / 02 Nov

Fracking had been expected to feature in the campaign for the UK general election

British govt urged to make fracking ban permanent

Government ministers in the Botanic Gardens, Dublin for the launch of the progress report

Govt lists achievements under Climate Action Plan

Environment / 31 Oct

Around 600,000 people were put on a boil water notice last week

EPA says Irish Water on notice over Leixlip issues

Environment / 31 Oct

Greta Thunberg rose to prominence after she started spending her Fridays outside Sweden's parliament in August 2018

Greta Thunberg declines environmental award

News Lens / 30 Oct

Despite tens of millions of visits to the beach in Australia annually, shark attacks remain rare (File image)

Latest Australia shark attack sparks tourism concerns

News Lens / 30 Oct

More than two-thirds of the populations at risk are in Bangladesh, China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand

300m face annual coastline flooding by 2050: study

News Lens / 30 Oct

The minister said allowing e-cars to use bus lanes would have to be considered

More powers in climate plans for local authorities

Environment / 29 Oct

Agriculture is our biggest contributor to emissions because it's our dominant industry

Emissions targets a touchy subject in agriculture world

Environment / 27 Oct

Photographer Leo Malafaia captured the boy emerging from the sea covered in oil (Photo by Leo Malafaia/AFP via Getty Images)

Picture of oil-stained Brazilian boy goes viral

Environment / 26 Oct

A rise in dairy herd numbers is the most significant driver of the increase in agriculture emissions

Ireland exceeds annual EU emissions target by 5m tonnes

Environment / 24 Oct

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