An unholy trinity of conservatives, Christian nationalists and tech bros are planning to strip American women of their rights

Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t

Pumped-up White House videos about Iran conflict are extreme even by recent US standards

Reviews of the Department of Education have found it to be overworked, reactive, overly absorbed in short-term operational issues and lacking space for long-term strategic thinking

Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

Broadcaster talks about Roy Keane and the mothers of Cork, angry Trumpite golfers and finding a fan in Martin McGuinness

Across the continent, remote villages are fading amid declining births and residents departing for jobs in urban centres

The stark fact is that there are students sitting Junior and Leaving Cert exams today who went to bed hungry last night

Increased atmospheric evaporative demand in recent years has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally across both dry and wet regions, and the trend is likely to continue under future warming scenarios.

UN secretary general António Guterres urges world leaders to move ‘from plundering to protection’

Cork is ‘very, very vulnerable’, but Dublin, Galway, the east coast and areas along the Shannon are also at high risk

Invasive alien species remain one of the biggest causes of biodiversity loss and species extinction. These non-natives animals, plants or microorganisms are

Ella McSweeney: The Department of Housing is proposing to give up trying to restore or naturalise many of our rivers

Row is yet more evidence of politicians’ preoccupation with trivia as storm clouds gather abroad and housing crisis worsens at home

He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist...

I left to stay true to my byline

Coastwatch survey finds nitrate levels were lowest since 2012, while raw sewage discharges also declined

Climate crisis and pollution reported as possible reasons for dramatic fall in numbers of cockles, clams and mussels

This week the EU will argue the UK’s ban on catching the tiny fish, celebrated by conservationists, amounts to discrimination against Danish fishers

Office for Environmental Protection calls for urgent action after finding government is falling short on most targets

The concept is an eco-centric approach which is nature-led and human-enabled

The scale and speed of change required to tackle climate issue is unprecedented and not always immediately popular