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Climate Change

This week
12th July 2026 - 16th July 2026
Wildfires
Homes evacuated as huge fire rages in Fontainebleau forest near Paris
13 Jul
7.4k
35
Irish weather
Raising them right: I grew up with lots of scorching summer sunburn. I hope my kids never do
Niamh O'Reilly
13 Jul
6.2k
28
7 deadly reads
Sitdown Sunday: The strange story behind the late Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart
12 Jul
10.8k
1
Analysis
How green is your summer holiday? Why emissions labels on flights risk greenwashing air travel
Paul O'Donoghue
12 Jul
3.0k
Last week
5th July 2026 - 11th July 2026
good buzz
'Pockets of nature' every 200 metres promised in new national plan to save bees and butterflies
10 Jul
15.5k
47
trees trees trees
Heat is here to stay: Irish cities urgently need more trees
Pádraic Fogarty
Updated 9 Jul
11.0k
50
Climate
Home heating emissions fall to lowest level in decades - but transport is still a big problem
Updated 8 Jul
8.4k
55
hold up
Plans for controversial €1bn data centre campus in Co Westmeath stalled after 10 appeals lodged
7 Jul
15.6k
25
Global Warming
Irish family: We abandoned our holiday in France when the temperature hit 41 degrees
Conor Dowling
Updated 7 Jul
37.8k
84
Heatwave
Wildfires rage in Portugal, Spain and Greece as authorities warn of toxic smoke
5 Jul
13.6k
This month
July 2026
Climate Change
El Niño phenomenon fuels likelihood of extreme weather over summer
3 Jul
12.2k
48
Met Éireann
Dublin just recorded its hottest-ever June (and 13 other places also broke temperature records)
2 Jul
4.2k
23
carbon bootprint
Kelly Earley: As global militaries wage war and kill people, they are also killing the planet
Kelly Earley
1 Jul
3.0k
39
Global Warming
World's oceans have warmest June on record
1 Jul
3.4k
46
Last month
June 2026
it's not over
Heat pulses over Europe as some nations see their hottest day on record
30 Jun
13.3k
30
Climate Change
Dáil told today is 'the day of the bonfire of our climate targets' as it debates LNG bill
30 Jun
8.0k
4
Climate Change
Extreme heatwave breaks record temperatures in the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany
30 Jun
9.4k
40
Fossil Fuels
Government's use of the Dáil guillotine for 'anti-climate' legislation labelled 'undemocratic'
Updated 29 Jun
7.9k
26
record temperatures
More than 1,300 excess deaths recorded amid heatwave in Europe, WHO chief says
Updated 28 Jun
26.9k
the heat is off
Cooler weather returns after record-breaking heat as rain spreads across Ireland
27 Jun
12.7k
The Morning Lead
Heading on your holidays? Here is how the heatwave is impacting Ireland's holiday hotspots
It is hot, hot, hot in a lot of Europe (and not in a good way).
27 Jun
15.6k
45
Heatwave
Ireland is in the midst of a heatwave, but what exactly counts as a heatwave?
26 Jun
8.2k
15
FactCheck
Debunked: Maps comparing European temperatures in 1976 and 2026 use mislabelled data
26 Jun
10.0k
a hot one
When and where were the highest ever temperatures in Ireland recorded?
25 Jun
15.4k
18
europe's heat dome
An Irishman melting in Spain: Life in a 40°C city is no joke
Cormac Breen
24 Jun
25.4k
29
Climate Change
European countries swelter as heatwave disrupts transport and tourism
20 Jun
19.7k
32
Climate Change
Energy minister says data centres are good for Ireland as Dáil debates moratorium
Labour told the Dáil data centre energy consumption is “insane”.
17 Jun
9.0k
64
Climate Change
Government urged to provide targeted measures to drive EV uptake among lower-income households
17 Jun
8.4k
49
LOVE AT FIRST BITE
Are you a mosquito magnet? Here's why
16 Jun
30.0k
21
FactCheck
Debunked: A misleading graph of the warmest springs on record actually reveals Ireland is getting hotter
12 Jun
4.9k
Climate Change
'There has to be a plan B and compensation': Thousands of homes at risk of coastal erosion by 2050
10 Jun
15.3k
39
climate breakdown
Ireland on fire: Wildfires are a huge aspect of a changing climate, and we're totally unprepared
Pádraic Fogarty
Updated 7 Jun
6.0k
54
The Morning Lead
'No evidence' of a rural-urban divide on climate change, new study finds
The ESRI also found that farmers and non-farmers hold misperceptions of each other’s attitudes.
David MacRedmond
4 Jun
10.3k
26
May
May 2026
climate breakdown
John Gibbons: The planet is burning, but Ireland still isn't taking climate change seriously
John Gibbons
29 May
8.6k
139
SUVs
Government told to consider hiking tax on bigger cars and ditching universal EV grants
28 May
38.4k
47
coldest spring of the rest of your life
Weird weather: Met Éireann expert says current hot spell would be 'unusual for July'
Met Éireann senior climatologist Pádraig Flattery said “we are not on track for the best case scenario, we’re nowhere near it”.
27 May
26.3k
Ding Dong
O’Brien doubles down on climate progress claim against accusations of 'spin' and being 'delusional'
Updated 27 May
14.9k
64
RELATED
Fianna Fáil members approve bill to lift ban on nuclear power in Ireland
27 May
Ireland on track to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030
27 May
The Morning Lead
Ireland on track to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030
Nearly all sectors are on course to exceed their emissions ceiling by 2030.
27 May
10.5k
87
feeling hot hot hot
What is the 'heat dome' over Ireland that's causing temperatures to keep rising?
26 May
17.9k
28
The Morning Lead
Calls to extend lifeguarding season to May as temperatures soar to high 20s
The official lifeguard season covers weekends in June and every day of July and August, Ireland’s meteorological summer.
Mairead Maguire
26 May
6.7k
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