Stop Climate Chaos launch their latest report Government must urgently act to close Ireland’s widening emissions gap, new report warns Recent data shows that Ireland needs urgent change of tack to &#8...

New home supply outside Dublin is up but there is also a definite cooling on the demand side of the equation

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophistica...

Decision to allow development of 190 new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the law Houses can be built on floodplains even if they fail a crucial safety test, according to a high court judgment that will be of “immense interest” to developers across England and Wales. The ruling clears the way for a highly controversial development of 190 new homes on north Somerset’s floodplains, despite the site being in “flood zone 3a”, the highest level of flood risk before land is considered a functional floodplain. Continue reading...

Residents have campaigned for more than 40 years for this project to reverse neglect and dereliction

The US legal system often fails to provide counsel for millions of Americans in civil cases. Generic and law-specific AI models can help address this justice gap of unmet legal needs.

The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...

Fast food company joins other objectors to proposed new Starbucks outlet

Over the course of the three-day championships, 270,000 people are expected to visit the event in Screggan, Co Offaly

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Former Irish Times environment editor was in many ways the living embodiment of the capital

Three Castles Burning is a social history podcast, dedicated to the story of the Irish capital. Dublin is a city of many stories, Three Castles Burning tells some of the more forgotten ones.

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

His reporting was relentless and led to the publication in January 1985 of his ground-breaking book The Destruction of Dublin

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

Big Tech and Big Oil are teeming up to push new gas-powered data centres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emis...

The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown

AI technology and road cameras could be used to alert people more quickly to someone driving the wrong way down a motorway.

The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below