Climate and Science Correspondent at the Irish Times. Views personal. DMs open. [email protected]
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"We have to look at ourselves in terms of how we fund nature restoration". Amid wrangles over money at #Cop17 Minister for Nature says Ireland must also do more at home
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A "brutal unfairness". @jimclarken of @OxfamIreland on the outsize carbon footprint of the rich and the climate catastrophes they can afford to hide from
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In Science & Climate in @IrishTimes, there's a science to feeding the world and it's both agricultural and political. @TomArnoldCEO & @CaryFowler_ analysis what needs to happen........
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......while @ShaunaReports salutes the scientists keeping it simple - looking for practical solutions to sustainability challenges while Big Tech complicates everything....
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....and Yvonne Buckley of @tcddublin hails the importance of fieldwork and the real life knowledge it offers
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'Not just an environmental problem' - a brief insight in what's happening at the Cop17 Global Biodiversity Summit in Yerevan from @janestout @FintanKelly_ @COSullivanTD
Ireland urges greater efforts to save nature at global biodiversity summit irishtimes.com/environment/c…
Ending Ireland's dependence on gas and oil is proving painfully slow
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World has notional emissions cuts planned to 2030. @UNEP says to have any hope of reining in temperature rise we must triple those notions. And then deploy carbon removal technologies that don't actually exist. It's beginning to sound a lot like fantasy
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"It's a wonderful world down there." The work of @MarineInst @UCC @GeolSurvIE makes visible Ireland's underwater canyons, (extinct) volcanoes and ice age remnants
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...also in Science & Climate in @IrishTimes, @thatsmaths tells how technology is unravelling the mystery of ancient texts charred by Vesuvius - without physically unrolling the super fragile scrolls....
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....and Jennie Stephens of @MaynoothUni looks at why Ireland was termed "Big Tech's Lapdog" and how corporate capture risks greater environmental harms
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Amateur weather watchers with private stations fill the gaps in the official Met Éireann network. Now their platform is being shut down
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Ireland will push for global Declaration on Surplus Food Sharing and Redistribution at #Cop31 (and among businesses and producers at home). Inspired by @FoodCloud
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Delays in producing renewable gas and supporting low-carbon cement as well as expected growth in activity are among the reasons Ireland's industrial emissions are forecast by @CCACIreland to rise
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In Science & Climate in @IrishTimes: The UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise, the 2nd Transition Away From Fossil Fuels Conference and work ahead for Ireland & Tuvalu.......
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plus, @spmathieson looks at communicating the complexities behind nutrition, weight and obesity....
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...and @claireoconnell meets a Munster Technological University researcher finding ways to take the nutrients from fish 'waste' and 3D print it into palatable food products
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Right policy, wrong time? Views vary on the impact the weakening of the carbon tax in the Budget will have on Ireland's overall decarbonisation strategy
The Government won’t raise carbon tax again but promises to decarbonise the economy – how? irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
Minister says dedicated Nature Restoration Fund is on the way as Budget finds little spare cash for the sector
‘Irish Government is clearly not listening’: Nature groups criticise lack of budget funding for restoration irishtimes.com/your-money/20…
