This is, despite what we tell ourselves, an anti-innovation country.
Estimated cost of cleaning up the Lough placed at €500m by one scientist.
National embarrassment.
When it comes to environmental disasters, who do you generally imagine is responsible? We generally tend to think of an evil rightwing industrial capitalist with a top hat and monocle. Some lad who looks like the Monopoly man, laughing maniacally and twirling his moustache as his money machine pumps toxic fumes into the upper atmosphere. […]
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has come under fire after being photographed on an environmentally questionable superyacht after making a name for himself in the world of climate activism. According to the Mirror, the Titanic star was spotted on a €131.8m, 92 meter Vava II superyacht, which is believed to produce around 238kg of carbon dioxide […]
Donegal residents living near the scene of a major peat landslide have expressed disappointment that another windmill development is being planned in the area.
Ireland is literally bursting at the teems with rubbish scattered across the country. In a recent walk in a ploughed field, I picked up in the region of 150 pieces of trash in a ten-minute period, everything from plastic bags, plastic bottles, black plastic, drink cans, sweet papers, and pieces of glass. At an estimate […]
Since the western world re-set its priorities following the Covid-19 outbreak, one of the most noticeable consequences was that the measures taken to stem the disease’s advance had some really interesting, positive, unanticipated, collateral consequences for the environment. It might have seemed that the climate agenda had been shelved in the face of a more […]