Tuesday 27 July, 2021
Test your knowledge of the all-time highs and lows of Irish weather.
Fire officials said the blaze had charred nearly 298 square miles acres of timber and brush in Plumas and Butte counties.
Li Yongsheng lay on a ventilation duct after floods hit the city of Zhengzhou.
“Today is a landmark day,” said Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.
Met Éireann said at least nine weather observing stations have met heat wave criteria.
The blaze has prompted over 2,100 evacuations and destroyed 67 homes.
Politicians have so far broadly refrained from politicising the issue.
The latest projections suggested there might be fewer storms – but that the ones that do come would be worse.
But the MEP says while the citizen-led revolution is inspiring, legislators must do better on climate.
Finland’s national meteorological institute registered its hottest temperature for June since records began in 1844.
Footage of the inferno went viral over the weekend.
Records were first established in the country in 1909.
The environmentalist says we ignore the record-breaking temperatures this week at our peril.
Eddie Mitchell of Love Leitrim outlines concerns of border communities that fracking may be set to get back on the agenda in the North.
He made the statement when questioned on the use of liquified natural gas terminals in Ireland today.
In Vancouver, police have responded to more than 65 sudden deaths since the heatwave began.
The People Before Profit TD says Ireland’s society and climate will not gain anything from data centres.
Thomas Muinzer says Northern Ireland waited a long time for a climate bill and now gets two.
Boris Johnson said the G7 wanted to “drive a global Green Industrial Revolution to transform the way we live”.
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action has published a report on halving emissions in the transport sector by 2030.
WWF is urging leaders meeting at the Cop26 climate summit to commit to action to curb global temperature rises to 1.5C and avoid catastrophe.
It follows a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities imposed by the US president on his first day in office.
The findings are based on simulations of climate, with and without human-induced emissions.
From TheJournal.ie
A new report from NUIG’s Centre for Human Rights calls on the State to use its weight at the UN to push for a global ban on fracking.
Noteworthy shows that State revenue from an EU carbon trading scheme went into controversial forestry programme and a rural transport scheme.
Pádraic Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust says Government policy, particularly around the burning of land for agriculture must be overhauled.
Melting glaciers are shifting the Earth’s axis, a new study has found.
Biden has doubled US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions.
The ruling was made in the High Court today.
The countries said they are “committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle the climate crisis”.
One in four birds is now on the so-called red list.
This compares with a decrease of approximately 11-12% across Europe.
The biggest losses were in Brazil, three times more than in the next highest country.
Author Laurie Laybourn-Langton says global governments must learn the lessons Covid-19 and take immediate action to tackle climate change.
The head of Friends of the Earth says the Bill does well on targets but falls short on just transition and fracked gas.
The Climate Action Bill has been launched by the government.
A new all-Ireland constitution can enshrine into law the inviolable rights of nature and create a space to ensure a safe climate future.
