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Twin Crises: Biodiversity and The Climate Crisis

Everyone has heard of the climate crisis. Increasingly, governments, individuals, corporations, communities and NGOs are addressing this...

Wildlife In (Another) Lockdown

It was widely discussed how many people rediscovered nature in the first lockdown and experienced the mental and physical health benefits...

What is Eco-Socialism?

In recent years we, as a collective, have witnessed the ever-growing emergency of the climate crisis from Antarctica’s melting ice caps...

Climate Change: A Threat to Human Security

For most people, when climate change is mentioned, their thoughts immediately go towards paper straws, reusable coffee cups, and Greta...

Tip Of The Melting Iceberg

I think we can all remember the period of the crisis where the world fawned over the widespread footage and images of nature’s revival in...

Action Is The Antidote To Despair

2020 has proved two points to us. One is that in the face of a global threat, ever-present and all-consuming, people all over the world...

We Need A Green Recovery

It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic to realise this, but we really need nature. I have always sought solace with nature as an escape from...

Don't Let Perfection Be The Enemy of Good

I sat watching the exit polls from General Election 2020 on a rainy night in Dublin on the 8th of February. I had spent the previous...

No Climate Action Without Climate Justice

As a young Green activist, I will be voting no for the proposed Programme for Government in the South, as I do not believe it ensures a...

Climate Change, the Coronavirus and the Columnist

I have tried to remain alert to the fact that the people, events, and forces described … carry in them the seeds of other, perhaps less...

The DUP and Sinn Féin are both failing us - Cormac Manning

Are you happy with the way we do politics here? Do you feel well represented by our current political establishment? I’m frustrated at...