Environment

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 […]

On Saturday, September 21, an event is planned in Skibbereen to help us learn a bit more about the most topical material at the moment for all the wrong reasons – plastic. A day of information and talks is currently being planned with more information to follow nearer the time. […]

Bank of Ireland has unveiled a suite of green loans and interest rates to encourage and reward home owners and businesses to be more energy efficient. The new initiatives include a green interest rate discount for borrowers buying or building energy-efficient homes, and a green home improvement loan for energy-efficiency […]