Irish coastal communities face erosion in ‘urgent crisis’ and need relocation, report says
Climate Change Advisory Council paper says preparations for land loss to sea needed now
New AI weather model is ‘1,000 times more efficient’ at forecasts, committee hears
Separate ‘good AI’ from ‘bad AI’ in deciding data centre policy, TDs urged
Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions
Figures raise questions over staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service, says TD
Ireland’s hedgehogs are counting on public to help out with a prickly problem
Hedgehog Conservation Ireland has been set up to assess population numbers and take action
Power-hungry data centres fuel increasingly fractious debate about squeezed national grid
Row raging since 2021 when senior EirGrid executive noted voracious appetite for power, now at 20% of Republic’s electricity
Ireland’s ‘downright alarming’ record-breaking heat in May due to climate change, scientists find
Sudden surge of heat ‘downright alarming’ and marks rapidly shifting norms
Louth river incident is one of Ireland’s worst fish kills on record
Inland Fisheries Ireland says source has been identified as agricultural discharge
EU is taking Ireland to court over failure to stop illegal peat extraction
Clear evidence of illegality is not being acted on, says Brussels
Endangered salmon among victims of ‘significant’ fish kill in Co Louth
‘Definite line of inquiry’ being pursued by Inland Fisheries Ireland following incident in river Glyde near Tallanstown
Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says
Data processing accounts for 21% of Irish electricity use – compared to just 4% in the US and 1% in China
Taoiseach proposes referendum to create new ministerial office for maritime issues
Micheál Martin said ‘there’s something missing where we don’t have a stronger department of the marine’
Irish Rail says rumours new Darts are too big for tunnels are false
Roll-out of new carriages is delayed, but company says this has nothing to do with their size
El Niño forecast to return this summer with risk of record heat in Ireland and globally
World Meteorological Organisation now almost certain of heat intensifying worldwide from June
