Rare supercell twister that ripped through a quiet village exposed common vulnerabilities

Plans to remove commercial plantation around native forest have stalled for years

Households need help to break free from home heating oil for good

Government should not only reserve legal designation for fast-tracking built projects but should extend it to nature too

The stories of people whose lives, livelihoods and cultures have been destroyed should resonate clearly with Ireland’s famine past

AI promises gains for healthcare but doctors and patients need to keep asking questions

Climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra says emission reduction targets must be taken very seriously

Climate Change Advisory Council ‘extremely concerned’ by delays in planned schemes

Climate scientists warn the impending super-strong El Niño will have ripple effects worldwide and have implications for more than just the national weather

Second conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels will take place on a Pacific island nation

Even in wetter summers, drought set to be a perennial problem

Limiting the operation of turbines to 20 to 25 years makes no sense, wind energy companies say

Annals of Irish Mathematics and Mathematicians records 5,000 notables who are Irish, worked in Ireland or had Irish doctoral advisers

Working together on petitions, campaigns and taking a united stance is the way individual effort can have real impact

Transition is under way but the task lacks the timeline and tough decisions to complete the job

Artificial reef project aims to speed up recovery process after decades of damage by commercial fishing ships

Kerosene-dependent households need more creative thinking from leaders to ‘level the playing field between the on-grid and the off-grid consumer’

US firm had chosen Mayo because of electricity constraints around Dublin

Michelle McCrystall is an assistant professor at Maynooth University’s Department of Physics

A video of someone driving at 190km/h on the wrong side of a motorway in the early hours will escalate engagement

After decades exploring Earth’s frozen frontiers, Eric Philips became one of the first people to see both poles from space

Sinn Féin, SocDems, Labour, Greens and PBP join 40 campaign groups in calling for Climate Action Plan

Breakaway group burns US flag before setting off firecrackers and chanting against US troops in Shannon

Dublin City Council said it hopes to begin work next year and have properties connected by 2028

Researchers say retrofit targets will not be met and there may be a role for alternative fuels

Levies and network charges on electric bills ‘deterring consumers’ from green choices such as heat pumps

Extreme weather events being treated as ‘isolated incidents’ rather than fundamental change, says Climate Change Advisory Council

Interactive online map allows public to check exposure to risks in their own area

At a time of climate crisis, will cooking with gas become as anachronistic as indoor smoking?

Sharing an author’s arguments and quotes is tricky without a good index to point the way

A just transition must support people who have lost thousands of jobs and faced an energy transition, say local advocates, who are sceptical about how funding has been spent

Data-centre expansion will make it hard to source enough gas to meet demand during extreme cold events, state regulator warns

McDonald’s reporting on climate change was pioneering in Irish journalism, and he regularly reported from abroad on climate negotiations

Dublin conference hears countries and firms face mounting dangers from failure to protect natural world

‘No time to lose’ - World Meteorological Organisation mobilises with climate impacts expected well into 2027

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

Clean technologies rarely feature in popular entertainment – with a few recent exceptions

Butterflies react quickly to change but can still get caught out by misaligned life cycles

In humanity’s pursuit of the right time, our modern technologies have achieved a level of accuracy far beyond what can be perceived in everyday life

AI has solved problems that human mathematicians grappled in vain with for decades

Misleading economic arguments position climate action as a threat to prosperity

Ireland could learn much from a nursery and research institute in the Netherlands

Analysis, public consultations and political wrangling could make delivery a lengthy process

Department of Agriculture issues order to cease work to allow investigation of felling licence

Prohibition set to expire next week, but only some areas recovering from drought

Climate change is main driver behind marine heatwaves that harm fisheries, tourism and public health

Sponsors Stripe announce improved prize fund and new mentoring scheme for winners

Such incidents ‘not uncommon’, says fire chief, despite drought and repeated warnings

John Goold is a professor in physics at Trinity College Dublin and codirector of Rinn Quantum

Generative AI has changed the economics of academic paper mills – businesses that manufacture studies, fabricate data, and sell completed papers to researchers