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Climate Change

    Why are the LA fires spreading so quickly?
    Opinion: Can native woodland flourish without farmers? They also deserve a just transition
    Elizabeth Rymut
    Heating up: 2024 was Ireland's fourth hottest year on record
    AI will be 'big disruptor' in world of weather forecasting, says head of Met Éireann
    The frontline of the climate crisis in Honduras: 'We live in fear here when it starts raining'
    The world in 2025: Six actions global leaders can take to build a fairer and better planet
    Karol Balfe
    'Dangerous new heights' of climate change displaced millions of people around the world in 2024
    What happens now? Data centres being built outside Ireland may be better for the environment
    The Journal Investigates finds that renewable energy in other EU countries can offer a greener solution to Ireland’s ‘dirty’ data centres.
    Life under conflict: The struggle for water in Northwest Syria
    Louay Tajiddin
    Nearly two-fifths of Ireland's farm holders are over retirement age
    Ireland producing more waste than a decade ago and 'almost certain' to miss 2025 recycling target
    In 2022, Ireland generated 15.7 million tonnes of waste.
    Community group who saved road from coastal erosion urges State to reduce fossil fuel use
    Ireland needs to stop using harmful fossil fuels in the next 15 years - climate watchdog
    Campaigners call on government to pause data centre growth due to climate commitment threat
    Opinion: Fast fashion conglomerates are having a profoundly negative impact on Irish businesses
    Elaine Maguire O'Connor
    Ireland's data centres turning to fossil fuels after maxing out country's electricity grid
    Climate-impacting emissions are being released from data centres using off-grid generators.
    Backup and emergency generators powering large data centres contributing to CO2 emissions
    Majority of data centres located in Greater Dublin area, straining the electricity grid
    Data centre demand fuelled by rise of artificial intelligence
    In South Sudan with aid boss John Rynne: 'The maps drawn in colonial times are starting to erode'
    Niall O’Connor travelled to South Sudan and the Sudan border to report on the forgotten African crisis. This is his third dispatch from the region.
    The Greens want to pilot 'forest schools' to foster a respect for nature - how would they work?
    'No deal is better than a bad deal': Poorer countries walk out of climate negotiations
    Ireland on track to meet €225 million climate finance target by 2025 - Eamon Ryan
    FactCheck: Has the carbon tax led to a reduction in Ireland's emissions?
    Mary Lou McDonald said this week that the tax has NOT led to a reduction.
    Quiz: How much do you know about Irish amphibians?
    Flash floods and mudslides threat as tropical storm drenches Honduras
    France and Argentina draw back dramatically from climate talks in Azerbaijan
    'Is it real money? Loans? Grandpa's old socks?': Climate finance talks split on substance
    World ‘failing to bend the curve’ on curbing temperature rises, analysts say
    'God looked after Ireland with wind': Ryan pushes back on praise for 'God-given' fossil fuels
    Greens and Labour call on RTÉ to host a climate debate as part of general election coverage
    Eamon Ryan warns climate crisis has fallen 'down the order' of political priorities
    World leader speeches at COP29 play out like game of rock, paper, fossil fuels
    Trump win 'bitterly disappointing' but 'not end of fight' for safer planet - Biden climate advisor
    Maternity leave, housing and taxing business class flights: The Greens set out their manifesto
    Azerbaijan president defends fossil fuels and claims country a victim of 'western fake media' at COP29
    Criticism levelled at COP over reports that organiser engaged with 'fossil fuel deal'
    One trillion dollars needed annually to help developing countries prevent climate breakdown
    Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan has said there is a ‘real risk’ the negotiations on the climate finance goal could fail.
    'Red alert': Plea for urgent action as world hits hottest year of modern records
    Major climate summit kicks off - but some world leaders (including Ireland's) are giving it a miss
    Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheál Martin are among those failing to attend.
    Green Party promise to facilitate cut in electricity prices for EV owners if reelected
    The COP29 climate summit is facing big decisions for the world - sign up for our newsletter
    Over 130 structures, mostly homes, destroyed in California wildfires
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