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Moving with the times: Is there room for a greener commute? (opens the original)
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There is a structural problem with Irelandâs ambition to persuade more of us to leave our cars at home. We are building more housing close to public transport, reducing parking requirements in well-connected areas and investing billions in buses and rail. Environmentally, that makes sense. But there is one fairly obvious requirement if this strategy is going to work. That is, when people turn up for the train or bus at eight in the morning, there has to be room to get on. Getting the train fro
Irelandâs peatland paradox: Restoring bogs while commercial extraction continues (opens the original)
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Ireland is spending serious money putting water back into bogs we once spent decades draining. Across the midlands, drains are being blocked, water tables raised and former industrial peatlands rehabilitated. It is quite a reversal. Landscapes engineered to make peat dry enough to harvest are now being engineered to make them wet again. Bord na Móna reports that around 20,000 hectares of peatland have now been rehabilitated under its Peatlands Climate Action Scheme by late 2025, of which 7,273
Michelle McKeown: Stronger source-to-sea approach needed to protect our oceans (opens the original)
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When we think about protecting the ocean, we tend to picture beaches, fishing boats, plastic bottles and perhaps a forlorn seabird gliding over the water. We rarely picture a farm drain 40 kilometres inland or stormwater drains in our cities. But perhaps we should. We tend to imagine the coast as a boundary. Land here, sea there. A neat line on a map. Nature, unfortunately, has never shown much respect for our filing systems. Every river catchment is connected to the sea it eventually meets. Lon
Best buds: Just how green is your wedding bouquet? (opens the original)
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There are few things that seem more naturally sustainable than flowers. They grow from the ground, feed our pollinators and eventually return to it. Yet the flowers in an Irish wedding bouquet may have travelled considerably further than many of the guests. In 2024, Ireland imported around 17 million kilograms of fresh cut flowers and flower buds, which was worth approximately $77 million (in US dollars), according to UN trade data. More than 16 million kilograms were recorded as arriving from t
Too much of a good thing: Why sargassum has become such a problem (opens the original)
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The Atlantic has produced rather too much of a good thing. Floating sargassum is, in the right place and in the right quantity, one of the ocean’s more useful bits of clutter. Great golden-brown rafts drift across the surface, providing shelter and food for fish, crabs, seabirds and young sea turtles. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) even designates Sargassum as essential fish habitat in parts of the Atlantic. But move millions of tonnes of it onto a tropical beach a
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