New research highlights poverty of information about energy-intensive sector’s footprint

The Government is expected to remove the need for environmental assessments for housing developments of up to 250 units by the end of the month in a bid to speed up house building.

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Agriculture takes up 74 per cent of the country’s land

Agriculture takes up 74 per cent of the country’s land

From pausing the carbon tax to scrapping the Dublin Airport passenger cap, the Taoiseach insists Coalition’s ‘pragmatic’ approach is the way forward while the Greens argue ministers are ‘defunding the...

Mammals, small reptiles and amphibians losing shelter and food due to blazes in Tipperary, Wicklow and Waterford

A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone

Following a spate of devastating wildfires, analysis has found that more than half of the land burned here over the past decade overlapped with protected nature areas – significantly higher than the...

Seven Irish politicians are travelling to Germany to observe the trial of an Irish citizen detained in the German city.

New guidelines help sites across Europe to integrate tourism and recreational activities while highlighting the growing importance of ecotourism.

Together, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...

Laws exempting key projects from national climate goals should be followed by moves to curtail environmental screening, says taskforce chief

Laws exempting key projects from national climate goals should be followed by moves to curtail environmental screening, says taskforce chief

Once-common bird of prey is at the centre of tensions over land use for farming and forestry