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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews

Climate and Science Correspondent at the Irish Times. Views personal. DMs open. caroline.odoherty@irishtimes.com

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Ireland's Greenest Places competition returns for a second year - all the details of what happened last year and how to get involved are here in @IrishTimes irishtimes.com/life-style/pe…

The search for Ireland’s Greenest Places begins, with two new judges on board

Following the success of last year’s competition, we are once again asking readers to nominate the places across Ireland that deserve to be recognised

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Irish coastal communities face erosion in ‘urgent crisis’ and need relocation, report says Stark warning from @DoctorDune for @CCACIreland irishtimes.com/environment/c…

Irish coastal communities face erosion in ‘urgent crisis’ and need relocation, report says

Climate Change Advisory Council paper says preparations for land loss to sea needed now

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Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions - concerns around staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service raised by @LiamQuaide irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Reports of wildlife crime double but prosecutions stay low

Figures raise questions over staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service, says TD

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Data centre electricity demand could exceed entire power usage of Irish Republic - Oireachtas AI committee will hear about environmental impacts & uses for AI irishtimes.com/politics/2026…

Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country

AI Committee tee up

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In Science & Climate in @IrishTimes, @whittledaway looks at the successes and challenges with the National Pollinator Plan..... irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Bees in big trouble as the lie of the land worsens

The next five-year National Pollinator Plan will be critical for arresting further decline, driven by threats to habitat

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....while @SadhbhO examines the Irish Green Building Council's recommendations for incorporating space for nature while expanding housing supply..... irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Rules must accommodate nature while building 50,000 homes a year

Plans for 300,000 housing units by 2030 could be hugely destructive to biodiversity. Supporting long-term ecological resilience is critical

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....and @HannahEDaly explains why plans to expand renewables and cut emissions are an incomplete package without a detailed strategy to phse out fossil fuels irishtimes.com/environment/c…

Fossil fuel phase-out plan is missing link in energy and climate policy

At a Time of Climate Crisis: Ireland has clean energy targets but no strategy for ending oil and gas

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Ireland’s hedgehogs are counting on public to help out with a prickly problem irishtimes.com/life-style/20…

Ireland’s hedgehogs are counting on public to help out with a prickly problem

Hedgehog Conservation Ireland has been set up to assess population numbers and take action

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Power-hungry data centres fuel increasingly fractious debate about squeezed national grid irishtimes.com/environment/c…

Power-hungry data centres fuel increasingly fractious debate about squeezed national grid

Row raging since 2021 when senior EirGrid executive noted voracious appetite for power, now at 20% of Republic’s electricity

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Ireland’s ‘downright alarming’ record-breaking heat in May due to climate change, scientists find irishtimes.com/environment/c…

Ireland’s ‘downright alarming’ record-breaking heat in May due to climate change, scientists find

Sudden surge of heat ‘downright alarming’ and marks rapidly shifting norms

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More than 20,000 fish feared killed in pollution incident in Co Louth river irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Louth river incident is one of Ireland’s worst fish kills on record

Inland Fisheries Ireland says source has been identified as agricultural discharge

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EU is taking Ireland to court over failure to stop illegal peat extraction irishtimes.com/environment/2…

EU is taking Ireland to court over failure to stop illegal peat extraction

Clear evidence of illegality is not being acted on, says Brussels

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Endangered salmon among victims of ‘significant’ fish kill in Co Louth irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Endangered salmon among victims of ‘significant’ fish kill in Co Louth

‘Definite line of inquiry’ being pursued by Inland Fisheries Ireland following incident in river Glyde near Tallanstown

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Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…

Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says

Data processing accounts for 21% of Irish electricity use – compared to just 4% in the US and 1% in China

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Micheál Martin says there is "something missing" in an island state without a minister for the marine - speaking at @FairSeasIreland conference in Cork irishtimes.com/politics/2026…

Taoiseach proposes referendum to create new ministerial office for maritime issues

Micheál Martin said ‘there’s something missing where we don’t have a stronger department of the marine’

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University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…

Research funding body neglects arts and humanities, university staff say

Letter to Min Higher Ed

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El Niño forecast to return this summer with risk of record heat in Ireland and globally irishtimes.com/environment/c…

El Niño forecast to return this summer with risk of record heat in Ireland and globally

World Meteorological Organisation now almost certain of heat intensifying worldwide from June

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....and Prof Yvonne Buckley highlights the multiple jobs and career opportunities that a proper commitment to nature restoration could create irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Nature restoration will plant the seed for exciting new careers

Students, parents and educators need to prepare for opportunities ahead in healing the environment

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In Science & Climate in @IrishTimes, Tom Arnold argues for putting food security top of the agenda during Ireland's term as EU president.... irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Food security must be made a priority of Ireland’s EU presidency

Global conflicts, climate change and a looming El Niño threaten worsening food shortages in 2026

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....while @KOSullivanIT tracks the links between climate justice and social injustice.... irishtimes.com/environment/c…

Joining the dots from climate to Gaza and all the injustice in between

Climate impacts, treatment of displaced people, growing inequality and other key issues are all interconnected

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