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Old data to the rescue: recovering weather observations to shed light on our past and present climate
Friday, 14 August 2020There are many paper records from the nineteenth century containing handwritten weather observations from various sites around Ireland. Finding these records and rescuing the data from them is not an easy task but could...
COVID-19 recovery and green growth: What is holding up implementation of the Paris Agreement?
Tuesday, 21 July 2020In just a few weeks, the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to mobilise crisis response and best determine how we can live with the pandemic in the short term. The next stage, and one that we eagerly await, is how we can...
Climate Governance and Fundamental Rights before the Supreme Court
Monday, 22 June 2020On 22 and 23 June 2020 the Supreme Court will hear the appeal in Climate Case Ireland, a challenge to the State’s National Mitigation Plan.[1] This case raises important issues of constitutional law, human rights...
Drought: a risk being overlooked in Ireland?
Tuesday, 2 June 2020The year 2018 revealed the vulnerabilities of Irish society to drought across multiple sectors, particularly water supply, agriculture and ecology. Now, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, another drought is brewing.
Climate, food and health: Critical policy choices in the post-Covid 19 world
Wednesday, 6 May 2020Charting an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will involve difficult choices and trade-offs. Finding the right balance between measures to kick start the economy and policies which require time to...
Dr Yikai Xu wins the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize
Friday, 27 March 2020Dr Yikai Xu was selected as this year’s winner for the most outstanding Irish PhD thesis in the general area of the chemical sciences in the Henkel sponsored prize.
Vaccination isn't a personal choice, it's a public one
Monday, 23 March 2020The risk posed by not vaccinating is far greater than any risk associated with receiving a vaccine says the Royal Irish Academy's Life and Medical Sciences committee who wants to help the public make more informed...
The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
Thursday, 27 February 2020Insider perspectives on the 7 August 2019 approval session and key policy messages
EASAC Climate Change and Health Report Presented at Conferences in Ireland
Tuesday, 3 December 2019Professor Pat Goodman was recently invited to present on EASAC’s latest report at two major Irish conferences
Hamilton Day 2019 Review
Wednesday, 23 October 2019On the 16 October each year, a day of celebrations is held to commemorate famed Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton's quaternion algebra 'Eureka moment' in 1843.