Climate change is making Ireland increasingly vulnerable to summer drought as higher temperatures draw more moisture from soils and vegetation, new research has found.

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

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

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

Sadhbh O’Neill, Climate and environmental researcher and Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Misleading economic arguments position climate action as a threat to prosperity

Human-caused climate change was the main driver of recent record-breaking sea temperatures around Europe, scientists said, warning of severe consequences.

Ireland is one of Europe's wettest countries, so why are hundreds of thousands of people being told not to use hosepipes?

One critical public investment we can make to reduce devastating future societal costs is to dramatically increase third-level funding

Stratospheric aerosol injection means spraying millions of tonnes of particles into the atmosphere to bounce solar radiation into space.

Wednesday and Thursday expected to be hottest days in Ireland this week

The study investigates the occurrence of an unusual tidal event recorded at Portsalon Golf Club on 21st February 2022 at 08:50 UTC. The event followed the passage of Storm Franklin and was described b...

34th Dáil, 27th Seanad

An in-depth analysis of current issues and topical reports. Watch Prime Time 2026-06-04 on RTÉ Player for free

Scientists warn of ‘new reality’ of heat extremes that claim three times more lives than car crashes and 16 times as many as murderers

Despite the tech industry’s efforts to squash concern about the devastating climate impacts of AI, resistance is growing

The convergence of geology, climate, vegetation and human history enabled peat to accumulate on an extraordinary scale over thousands of years, write Dr Nannan Li and Dr Lisa Orme of ICARUS and the

This study presents a chronology of fatal lightning strikes in Ireland (1900–2024) derived from digitised newspaper archives. Analysis provides insights into the seasonality, location, victim activit...

Irish homes and businesses must prepare for sharper swings between drought and flooding in the years ahead, a Maynooth University (MU) climate scientist has warned. The warning comes with the publication today of a major Europe-wide report showing that water extremes are becoming a defining feature...

The fuel shortages caused by the US-Israel war on Iran highlight the need to move towards more peaceful renewable-based futures

The chair of the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Advisory Council has said that if governments had heeded their warnings in the past and implemented just a proportion of them in full, the c...

Irish neutrality shields us from involvement in senseless wars and helps us limit environmental damage

Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied...