Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Irish leaders need to start being honest about livestock’s long shadow and our unsustainable diets

Meat and dairy provides only 13% of calories globally but are responsible for nearly 85% of greenhouse gas emissions linked with food production

Irish weather patterns indicate ‘global weirding’ is a threat to our food security, farmer and data scientist says

Mark Kelly believes global warming is ‘too benign a term’ given the extreme rainfall in Ireland over the past year

Will 200-year-old maps help inform decisions on crucial habitat restoration and future land use?

New digital archive of first ordnance survey maps of island of Ireland coincides with completion of first detailed national land cover map

Ireland moves climate dial as wastewater settles into farmers’ crosshairs

Irish farmers have delivered a 30 per cent reduction in their use of chemical nitrogen in just two years

On-the-spot water test for dangerous form of E.coli developed by Irish scientists

Technology predicted to help protect people drinking water from private sources including groundwater wells

Appeal court finds ‘no legal basis’ for order preventing firm extracting peat from part of Midlands bogs

Harte Peat argued some land considered by High Court not being extracted when EPA brought application

Survey shows 80 per cent of Irish people are ‘alarmed’ or ‘concerned’ about climate change

Findings of Environmental Protection Agency study show climate scepticism is rare in Ireland

Rise in E.coli contamination found in private water supplies

Unmonitored private drinking water supplies adding to public health risk for consumers, who are mainly based in rural areas

New national water action plan to curb pollution and flooding approved by Cabinet

New approach to have significant implications for farmers as it will allow for revisions to controversial 1945 Arterial Drainage Act

Peter Burke revealed something about the ‘organised hypocrisy’ of the State’s climate approach

Hypocrisy and misalignments undermine public trust in climate policies and threaten public buy-in

Burning coal, peat and wood is associated with poorer mental health, ESRI finds

Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter can also cause chronic disease and cancer

Failure to curtail our greenhouse gas emissions could cost us two children’s hospitals

In the public mind, 2030 has wrongly become the cornerstone of climate policy, rather than the imperative of complying with two legally-required carbon budgets

Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 reach lowest level in three decades

State still ‘well off track’ for 2030 targets despite reductions in almost all sectors

Ireland is one of Europe’s climate laggards despite progress

Do not be fooled by a cool June in Ireland - our planet is on track for its hottest year and cutting emissions is vital

How concerned should we be about our ‘at risk’ public water supplies?

Those exposed to poor supplies are consuming water with potentially serious health consequences

Half a million people now served by ‘at risk’ public water supplies

Deterioration in supplies due in the main to sustained problems of hazardous THMs and parasite cryptosporidium

Irish Science Media Centre set up to tackle rising misinformation and enhance public understanding

To combat ‘soundbites and clickbait’, project aims to provide trusted sources for public and policymakers

Almost all of radiation found in Irish people from natural sources - EPA

Almost 60 per cent of dose is due to the radioactive gas Radon in indoor air

Agriculture and industry emissions may be peaking, CSO data indicates

Industry and agriculture’s emissions may be peaking, according to latest air data

Worrying lack of progress in water quality, says EPA

Water bodies will not improve until urban and agricultural nutrients are reduced, watchdog says

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