About 700 million years ago, before the onset of macroscopic life, Earth froze over, and for our public lecture on 12th October, UCC's Dr Heda Agić will look at how life on Earth survived these condit...

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

This partial eclipse will see 96% of the Sun blocked by the Moon which will bring about a noticeable reduction in the daylight. The eclipse will begin at 18:15 and reach maximum at 19:13 and ending…

As Europe swelters through another summer of record temperatures, trees, wetlands and other nature-based solutions are becoming essential tools for keeping cities cooler.

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Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

Short-term lets have their place. But 16,000 people are homeless in Ireland and it’s right to question if leaving homes empty for much of the year is a choice we can stand over

Shakur’s death should remind us that the struggles of the 1970s are not relics. They are living, breathing, unfinished

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Shannon LNG Limited for a power plant, with a total installed capacity of 600 megawatts.

Ireland can witness a brief total lunar eclipse early Friday morning.  However, dawn twilight will make it difficult to see and the Moon will set while still in total eclipse.  Times for an observe…

While the village escaped flooding in the recent rains, it has suffered devastating floods before – most recently in 2010, 2012 and again in 2013