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Climate and Science Correspondent Irish Times [email protected]

Caroline O'Doherty

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.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Data centre electricity demand could exceed entire power usage of Irish Republic - Oireachtas AI Committee will hear about the environmental impacts and uses of AI www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

..... and @hannahdaly.ie explains why plans to expand renewables and cut emissions are an incomplete package without a detailed strategy to phase-out fossil fuels www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ireland’s hedgehogs are counting on public to help out with a prickly problem www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

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

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

In Science & Climate in @irishtimes.com, @whittledaway.bsky.social looks at the successes and challenges in the National Pollinator Plan....... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Concerns around staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service raised by @liamquaidetd.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Irish coastal communities face erosion in ‘urgent crisis’ and need relocation, report says www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

.....while @sadhbhoneill.bsky.social examines the Irish Green Building Council's recommendations for incorporating space for nature while expanding housing supply.... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

AI Committee tee up

Data centre electricity demand could exceed entire power usage of Irish Republic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Bees in big trouble as the lie of the land worsens

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

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Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions

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

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

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

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

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Caroline O'Doherty

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