Environment

One year on from opening its doors and Cork’s first minimal waste store Twig-Refill is slowly but surely helping to change the way we think and shop.  Plastic, packaging and waste have become ‘dirty’ words with the climate crisis facing our planet. This shift in thinking and move away from […]

Cathal Nolan is a PhD Candidate in Geography at UCC, specialising in Climate Change science and impacts in an Irish context while also founding and managing the increasingly popular Midland Weather Channel on Facebook. Having emerged from a reasonably unsettled period of late, our weather looks like becoming somewhat more […]

The Environmental Protection Agency is at the front line of environmental protection and policing. It ensures that Ireland’s environment is protected, and monitors changes in environmental trends to detect early warning signs of neglect or deterioration. By Jim Moriarty  Senior EPA Inspector If unexpected events occur that can damage the […]

By Sorcha Ní Longphuirt If you walk along the Argideen Estuary on a summer’s day you will see, and quite possibly smell, the green seaweed bloom that covers the mudflats between April and November. These ‘green tides’, a common feature in the area for the last number of decades have […]