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The National Park & Wildlife Service (NPWS) has confirmed that a population of a non-indigenous crayfish species (NICS) has been...

By reducing your organisation’s carbon emissions, you are playing your part in delivering not only a positive impact on the...

Government departments will be forced to pay out of their own pockets if they fail to hit specific multi-year environmental...

Wastewater aeration is the process of adding air into wastewater to allow aerobic bio-degradation of the pollutant components. It is...

Ireland stands with small island states in acknowledging their vulnerability in a world that is in crisis – “ethically, ecologically, with...

While the real estate industry has become much better at integrating sustainability into new development projects, owners and developers have...

Up to 70,000 households could face water charges of up to €500 from next year if Irish Water gets the...

The following is a list of the rivers where outbreaks of Crayfish Plague have been confirmed by diagnostic tests. The map...

Issues such as, contaminated land, waste, air, noise, energy and carbon, water, and product lifecycles for example, to the emergence...

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at UCC, John Sodeau, has said the government should sign a nationwide smoky coal ban immediately...

Verde Training Seminars The requirements imposed by environmental regulations on businesses are expanding and there is a need for managers...

Banks need to change how they lend money to customers seeking to renovate homes so climate change targets can be...

New analysis from the European Environment Agency shows that, with average temperatures rising, water scarcity is increasing across the EU....

Malaysia has become the latest Asian country to reject rubbish from rich countries.  It is to send as much as 3,000...

Some 18% of the world’s population resides in India and they survive on just 4% of the world’s freshwater. Rapid...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to quit as leader of the Conservative Party on June 7, sending...

Healthy forests, soils, seas and other ecosystems form Europe’s ‘natural capital’, which is vital for our well-being and the economy....

A new report from the European Environmental Bureau highlights shortcomings in how EU countries enable public participation in environmental decision-making....

Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are required by Article 26 of the Convention to submit national reports to...

Environmental policy is one of the EU’s major achievements, but we can’t stop now; change can and should happen more...

A new report from the Construction Industry Federation shows that over 10,000 extra workers joined the construction workforce last year,...

Executive summary Heather Hill Management Company CLG and Gabriel McGoldrick (the Applicants) challenged a decision of An Bord Pleanala (the Board) to...

Rising ammonia emissions from the agricultural sector remain one of the key contributors to air pollution in Ireland, the Environmental...

Planning permission for a facility to treat the Japanese Knotweed plant in Ballyhaunis has been refused over concerns it could...

The Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 (the “2018 Act”) provides legislative footing for the National Planning Framework, which was...

Biodegradable plastic carrier bags cannot be relied upon to degrade more quickly, according to a new study published on 28 April in Environmental...

2019 is a landmark year for energy and environment. By the end of 2019, Member States, like Ireland, will be...

The European Parliament recently agreed on CO2 emission standards for new cars and vans in the EU for the period after 2020 –...

The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) is developing a National Air Pollution Control Programme (NAPCP).  This Programme is...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned that Ireland is not addressing wastewater deficiencies at a “fast enough pace”. The country...

The EU Energy Efficiency Directive came into force throughout the EU in 2012. This requires all large companies to have a...

Dublin is the seventh most expensive place in the world to build, with average construction costs at $3,245.10 per metre...

Fitzpatrick and Daly v An Bord Pleanála, Apple Distribution International, and the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government and...

Environmental Implementation Review: an initiative to improve the application of EU policies and rules on the circular economy, nature and...

The Planning and Development Act 2000 allows an enhanced approval procedure for planning applications for wind farms with more than...

New European Environment Agency Indicator shows Europe lost over 90.000 lives and 453 bn euros to climate-related extremes over 1980-2017....

There was intense pressure on Transport Minister Shane Ross to appoint a noise regulator for Dublin Airport, even though officials...

EU officials are growing increasingly alarmed at the prospect of a “wild west” Brexit outcome in which a legal vacuum prevents the...

Small and medium sized businesses in Ireland agree they could do more to embrace green energy efficiency but most simply do not...

Environment secretary Michael Gove has admitted that the arrangements in place for maintaining EU environmental standards in the UK if...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors exist to make the job of the responsible investor easy, in theory. The reality, for...

Planning The government authorities that regulate planning and zoning for real estate development and use and extent of their powers...

A consistent amount of energy is used in industrial water circuits, and projects funded under the Horizon2020 programme are developing...

Network Rail Court of Appeal decision In a previous article (April 2017) the case of Willams & Waistell v Network...

Direct emissions released to water bodies from Europe’s large industrial sites have decreased in recent years for many pollutants. However,...

The deeper the pit, the more difficult the dewatering process: When conventional pumps reach their limits, often only a multi-level...

Irish Water have urged residents in Wicklow to ‘Think Before You Flush’, after a massive sewage blockage was cleared from...

Activities which require an environmental permit and how they are classified for such purposes The European Union’s Industrial Emissions Directive...

The United Nations chief environment scientist, Jian Liu has called on nations and individuals to make the environment their number...

UN Environment, Google and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre have unveiled a groundbreaking web-based platform that fuses big data and environmental...

The EU has boldly led global action on energy efficiency in buildings over the past decades. Across the region, a giant industry...

From the innovations and ethical dilemmas of synthetic biology to the options for appropriate international adaptation to climate change: Frontiers...

The BBC has assembled its largest ever panel of natural history TV presenters to put the environment firmly at the...

An overwhelming majority of adults (86%) recognise the value of the environment to the people of Ireland, recent research conducted...

A four-week pilot project led by Siemens Mobility in Munich has successfully used rerouting technologies to cut carbon and nitrogen emissions in...

Further to our blog post EU Commission reviews progress made in water quality and flood risk management, the WWF European Policy...

The current EU environment and climate change policy objectives are set out in the Seventh Environmental Action Programme, which guides EU...

Biodiversity is the variety of life on our planet. It underpins our well being and the economy. We depend on nature for...

Earlier this year, the European Commission issued cautionary notices to a number of Member States relating to their failure to...

Growing meat in the laboratory may do more damage to the climate in the long run than meat from cattle,...

Beautiful and informative river drainage basin map of Ireland. The River Shannon is Ireland’s longest river (224 miles, 360 km)...

Microplastics are small plastic pieces 5 mm or less, either produced as small pieces such as microbeads or worn down from...

Check out the European Air Quality Index to find out how the air quality is where you live. Verde Environmental...

After being called to an emergency oil spill incident on a film location site in Co. Wicklow recently where 280l...

Politicians and policymakers have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis facing the Earth, a report claims. The...

Scientists from five European countries have joined forces to develop next-generation 'chemical noses' to remove industrial pollutants from the environment....

A license granted for oil and gas exploration off the Cork coast was today quashed in a High Court settlement...

The EPA has developed a system to rank industrial and waste licensed sites (Integration Pollution Control) in order of priority...

Verde's dewatering tank undertaking ongoing groundwater dewatering and treatment on a construction site in Dublin where the main basement dig is...

Current trends in and future prospects for the real estate market (both commercial and residential) in Ireland The office market...

Sir David Attenborough has warned that humankind has the power to exterminate whole ecosystems “without even noticing”, and urged world leaders to...

The most important environmental problem that we're facing today is humanity's irrational and unsustainable over-exploitation of natural resources. This is...

New ways of making custom soil from waste could help solve food security problems with degraded soil a growing problem....

Some of the specific data centre environmental issues that are relevant to data centre operations are: Fuel storage and dangerous...

He may be named after one of literature’s most famous lovers, but one lonely frog has spent more than a...

Environmental experts have called on MPs to rule out 'no-deal' after Theresa May faced a crushing defeat on her Brexit...

Thailand is set to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds in an effort to tackle the blanket of pollution that...

Carbon cheques to be distributed per capita in order to compensate for the increased costs brought about by carbon taxation, ...

The establishment in Ireland 50 years ago this year, of the professional title of Chartered Engineer, considered to be the...

In his speech to open the BT Young Scientist of the Year ceremony, President Michael D Higgins praised the high...

In this work, an assessment of the impacts of climate change on Europe’s water resources has been performed, focusing on...

In 2017, nationally designated protected areas covered almost 26% of land area & inland waters across 39 European countries. With...

Lough Melvin is one of the first of Leitrim’s lakes to be investigated in relation to pollution by the new...

Single-use plastics are to be phased out across all government departments and agencies before wider laws are introduced to completely...

The government's promised green watchdog will be called the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), and will have the power to...

The share of renewable energy sources in the European Union’s (EU) energy use has doubled since 2005 but this growth...

As Parliament debates the draft Withdrawal Agreement we look at the potential impact of the proposed Brexit deal on Environmental...

Ireland’s performance on climate action has been ranked as the worst in the entire EU28 and among the worst in...

Sandymount Strand had “poor” water quality in 2017, said Andy Fanning, an environmental scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

The Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) has welcomed the Ireland’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2017 report from the Environmental Protection Agency, which...

The Italian city of Milan has ambitious plans to plant three million new trees by 2030, a move that experts...

Ireland’s River Basin Management Plan 2018 – 2021 was launched in April 2018, setting out measures to be implemented over...

Soil is an important — and often neglected — element of the climate system. It is the second largest carbon...

Scientists have created a nanoparticle-based material that does double duty when cleaning up wastewater—filtering out small particulate matter and dissolved...

The State has requested Donegal County Council to undertake a transboundary public consultation due to concerns raised by environmentalists over...

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD and the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy TD, have announced that...

The EPA has released the Water Quality in 2017: An Indicators Report for Ireland. The 16 indicators in the report provide...

A Limerick family who claimed they suffered respiratory type problems as a result of an alleged leak of kerosene heating...

New research into Irish businesses shows half of Irish companies do not have an environmental policy in place.  The research, which...

North Cork Fine Gael Councillor John Paul O’Shea has this week welcomed funding of over €835,000 from Irish Water to...

On the busiest shopping days of the year, here's how your consumer habits could impact the environment: How you'll buy...

Minister Sean Canney launched the Coalition 2030 SDG ‘Shadow Report’ in Dublin today. The Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan 2018-2020,...

On 25 October 2018 Parliament adopted a new comprehensive environmental package comprising: the Aarhus Participation Act; an amendment to the...

Historical and current emissions of mercury continue to present a significant risk to the environment and human health, according to...

Areas next to rivers hold potential for cost-effective flood protection and improving the health of an entire river ecosystem. According...

Green energy subsidies are fuelling the rise of poultry mega-farms across Northern Ireland, with owners accused of contaminating sensitive habitats with...

The European Commission is urging Ireland to respect obligations under the Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC) for the protection of natural...

A new judgement from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) may have major implications for a proposed...

The European Parliament’s Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs decided on Monday that investment firms will from now on have...

Ireland was the top user in Europe of Wind Energy in its Electricity yesterday.  Wind energy contributed 12.9% of Europe's electricity...

Sunscreen Researchers believe 10 chemical ingredients found in sunscreen are highly toxic to marine life, and can make coral more...

The new CAP has greater ambitions for climate action and environmental care including water, according to Gerard Shortle, DG Environment,...

Although air pollution is slowly easing in EU countries, it still causes nearly half a million early deaths each year,...

The Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018 was initiated on 27 September 2018 with the purpose to amend the provisions...

This cuddly bear is a physical manifestation of the horrific air pollution in the London area of Brixton. When air...

Why is water an environmental concern? Water pollution is an increasingly dangerous problem, affecting people across the world. Some people...

Dublin City Council has agreed to work to eliminate one of Europe’s most hated weeds found on privately owned land...

From 19 October 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency has initiated a public consultation period relating to proposed Guidance on Soil...

Speech given by Nigel Haigh, Honorary Fellow of Institute for European Environmental Policy, at the Environment Ireland Conference 2018 The...

A study led by researchers at Université de Montréal quantifies for the first time the maximum amount of nutrients—specifically, phosphorus—that...