Forestry & Enviro

Forestry & Enviro
‘We’re going nowhere’ – forestry chief says peat soil restrictions putting sector in jeopardy
Forestry & Enviro
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture drop by 4.6pc
Forestry & Enviro
Researchers propose a universal water quality scheme with nitrate quotas
Forestry & Enviro
Minister pours cold water over possibility of extending slurry spreading date

Raised bogs can store 13 times the carbon of Amazon rainforest
Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 04:00
‘The plan is to cut emissions not the herd’ – Teagasc director
Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 03:30
‘Extreme weather conditions impacting efforts to keep water quality high’ — Teagasc
Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 03:30
‘It’s like a land grab’: Owners of ash dieback plantations say they’re being driven out of forestry
Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 03:30
Good for the planet, bad for your pocket? Why smart meters may not live up to all the ESB buzz
Sun 16 Jun 2024 at 03:30
Farm orgs say weather conditions impacted water quality and farming will deliver improvements
Wed 12 Jun 2024 at 14:57
Wind farm in scenic West Cork location is refused permission
Tue 11 Jun 2024 at 07:09
Inability to control weeds and rushes is ‘a major concern’ to farmers going organic
Tue 11 Jun 2024 at 03:30
Just 19 grants paid out for septic tank repairs as critics say scheme is ‘too restrictive and convoluted’
Wed 05 Jun 2024 at 03:30
Water quality action campaign launched by Teagasc
Tue 04 Jun 2024 at 03:30

Forestry & Enviro

‘We’re going nowhere’ – forestry chief says peat soil restrictions putting sector in jeopardy

Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture drop by 4.6pc

Researchers propose a universal water quality scheme with nitrate quotas

Minister pours cold water over possibility of extending slurry spreading date

Raised bogs can store 13 times the carbon of Amazon rainforest

‘The plan is to cut emissions not the herd’ – Teagasc director

‘Extreme weather conditions impacting efforts to keep water quality high’ — Teagasc

‘It’s like a land grab’: Owners of ash dieback plantations say they’re being driven out of forestry

Good for the planet, bad for your pocket? Why smart meters may not live up to all the ESB buzz

Farm orgs say weather conditions impacted water quality and farming will deliver improvements

Wind farm in scenic West Cork location is refused permission

Inability to control weeds and rushes is ‘a major concern’ to farmers going organic

Just 19 grants paid out for septic tank repairs as critics say scheme is ‘too restrictive and convoluted’

Water quality action campaign launched by Teagasc

Biomethane strategy to have grant aid of €40m

Joe Barry: Ash dieback scheme is as good as we could have expected

Battle lines drawn as locals and gliders take on Carlow wind farm

Why going green is not just good for the planet, it’s also good for hotels’ bottom line

Solar panels must not be built on good farmland, UK ministers say amid concerns over food security

‘Job of improving water quality much harder than it was 30 years ago’ — Teagasc

Warning that biodiversity rules will cost forestry sector €3bn

€79.5m support package for ash-dieback approved

€79.5m extra funding for ash-dieback plan

Fionnán Sheahan: Life of Ryan – Greens attract plenty of ire, but criticism just means they have fulfilled their promises

‘We have to plan now’ – climate change expert’s warning over the battle for water

Wettest, hottest, deadliest – report shows extreme weather hit records in Europe in 2023

Farmers told it is ‘inevitable’ highly destructive great spruce bark beetle will arrive in Ireland

Investors back methane-eating microbes that hope to slash emissions on farms

Planning to sell timber? The key steps to take, from contracts to tax

Officials sought block on flood of emails after backlash to glyphosate proposals

King Charles’s farm advisor: ‘David Attenborough is wrong about livestock – it’s not the cow but the how’

‘Government may look at supporting farmers to remove Ash dieback trees’

Controversial forestry fund ‘performing strongly’ but declines to provide details of land purchases

Fraudulent forestry firm directors made personally liable for debts

EPA’s says massive surge in forestry needed – Department says that depends on farmers

EU scraps pesticide proposals in another concession to protesting farmers

Meath farmer with ambition to plant 250,000 native trees — by giving them away for free

Biogas traders become hot commodities on demand for clean fuel

Urban Farming Has a Surprisingly High Climate Toll

Joe Barry: How to get people planting again – keep the process simple and resist the objectors

Government continues to set 8,000ha annual forestry target, Ash dieback taskforce still not set up

Ireland taken to European Court of Justice over failure to protect nature against influx of invasive species

Demand for Christmas trees now outstrips supply, industry warns

Department urged to halt importation of hedging plants due to concerns over importation of disease

The joys and benefits of helping peregrine falcons on your farmland

How this Carlow man went from working for other Christmas tree farmers to growing 40,000 of his own trees

‘For once farmers are not being blamed for water quality’

UAE invests in UK’s struggling wind farm market

New research centre at Moorepark aimed at reducing GHG emissions

10 key jobs to do in your forest this winter

Andrew Bergin: Why results-based schemes are the best way to help the environment

GHG emissions fall on all farms this year, Teagasc reports

‘Willy Wonka’ among aliases used in bizarre data requests to Coillte

Smartest thing farmers can do is reduce emissions – Taoiseach

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