APPLE has launched a first-of-its-kind $200m (€166m) carbon removal initiative that aims to accelerate national solutions to climate change.

The Echo speaks to students across Cork who have been speaking out about social issues that matter most to them as part of the Young Social Innovators (YSI) Speak Out Week.

A Blackpool-based campaign group is to seek a judicial review of the recent decision by the Minister for Public Expenditure to approve the Blackpool Flood Relief Scheme.

PERSISTENCE, resilience and perception are the top three traits needed to thrive and survive in volunteer advocacy, according to the head of the Cork Cycling Campaign Conn Donovan.

THREE Cork DEIS schools have benefitted from funding announced during National Tree Week.  Science Foundation Ireland has awarded funding to UCC’s ‘Tree Explorers’ project to help engage primary school students as well as adults with STEM topics.

Cork people are to feature in an upcoming TG4 documentary centring on the solace nature has offered during this pandemic and how it may fuel the debate for a broader range of wildlife habitat and land management.

CORK Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (Chase) has welcomed the High Court finding in favour of residents opposed to an incinerator in Ringaskiddy on two of 11 grounds.

A local environmental group has been given a huge boost in a legal challenge over the granting of planning permission for a €160 million incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour.

"A lot done, but more to do", was the reaction of Councillor Marcia D’Alton to the ruling from the High Court's Mr Justice David Barniville that Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment was entitled to succeed on two of its 11 grounds of ...

THE public is invited to have their say on the draft Cork City Heritage and Biodiversity Plan which identifies actions to protect, conserve and manage the city’s heritage over the next five years.

CORK City Council has responded to concerns voiced about the felling of trees as part of the ongoing works on the Mahon to Marina section of the wider city centre to Passage West greenway project.

AUTOMATED air-monitoring systems showed poor air quality in Cork City in recent days, so the public is being invited to have their say on a strategy to improve the situation.

On-demand transportation company Bolt has set its sights on creating over 130 jobs nationally with plans to bring its e-scooters to Ireland. Of these 130 jobs, it is understood 25 could be created in Cork.

Over 1,200 homes nationwide will be part of a retrofitting programme to cut carbon emissions this year, after local authorities received a €45m cash injection.

People who dump their rubbish on the side of our roads deserve to be caught, named and shamed, fined or even jailed, so said Maurice Gubbins in his editorial

Gardaí are urging people to keep shared spaces clean and litter-free. It comes after they saw a large amount of litter, collected around the Glenabo Woods area in Fermoy by a local family over the weekend.

NO DOUBT you will have heard about the financial rankings of the top clubs of Europe this week.  Spoiler alert; the rich and famous of Europe's football elite will probably survive the impact Covid-19 has had on their earnings.

Shell has signed an agreement with Irish developer Simply Blue Energy to acquire a 51% share of their Simply Blue Energy Kinsale venture.

AFTER the fantastic response to the film Nature in Cork City, Cork Nature Network is delighted to hold the first 2021 online premiere of their short film Cork Otters on February 2nd at 7pm.

In her weekly column Kathriona Devereux says humans struggle to grasp the concept that current actions will have adverse consequences in the future.

The Green Party has said Cork can be "a genuine leader" in climate action after Cork City Council passed a motion committing to the objective of a "just transition" in the upcoming city development plan.

Bernie Connolly is the Development Co-ordinator with Cork Environmental Forum, which celebrates quarter of a century this year fighting for the environment at a local level, writes ELLIE O’BYRNE

Eco-campaigners brought a giant cardboard cup of plastic to Barry’s Tea headquarters in Cork to highlight their ongoing battle to have plastic removed from the popular product.

So often the pleasure of well-meaning presents is short-lived and before you know it the toy is in the bin destined for landfill, writes Kathriona Devereux

Cork City Council has saved just over €17,000 per annum by going paperless for meetings.

FOR more than three decades the Deaf Enterprises in Ballinlough has been making people smile by giving a new lease of life to old furniture, which is often steeped in sentimental value.

Cork Environmental Forum (CEF) is set to host the 20th Environmental Awards ceremony reflecting “passionate activism, care for the environment and a deep commitment to sustainability”.

Following the success of the parklet on Douglas Street, and as part of the 'Reimagining Cork' programme, ten new parklets will be installed at locations across Cork city.

COLETTE SHERIDAN talks to the Cork man behind a new business established to service the future needs of offshore wind farms

CORK City Council is set to appoint a dedicated Trees Officer in a bid to "protect and build a green city". The Green Party proposal was approved at Cork City Council's budget meeting on Monday.

Raw sewage from 35 towns and villages across the State continues to be discharged into nearby waters, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report which is critical of Irish Water’s delivery of new treatment plants.

Water fountains are set to be installed in six parks in Cork city with a view to reducing the use of plastic bottles. The motion had been submitted by Sinn Féin councillor Mick Nugent back in March of last year.

Cork City and County Councils are working together to encourage households to put leftover or half-empty paint tins that are not being used to good use.

A snowy owl has been spotted by the waterfront in Cobh in what is an extremely rare sighting in Ireland. The owl, which is one of the largest in the world, was spotted at the waterfront in Cobh during the early hours of Saturday morning.

A space-age food growing system has landed in Ireland thanks to two innovative women, writes ELLIE O’BYRNE , in her monthly Green Women column, in WoW!

She has had a wide and varied career as a bass player, jewellery maker and beautician, and now, Cork-based Pascale Lutz has created a green journal for kids, writes EMMA CONNOLLY

A 61-year-old ‘environmental protector’ was given a one-year suspended jail term and had her chainsaw confiscated today for stealing wood from a Coillte forest near her home in West Cork.

Japan will achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050, prime minister Yoshihide Suga declared, outlining an ambitious agenda as the country struggles to balance economic and pandemic concerns.

LOUIS DUFFY, Director of Services, Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Services at Cork County Council, tells us about the local authority’s Waste Awareness Week

A GREEN PARTY councillor has said that Budget 2021 has the ability to improve the city’s sustainability and help fast-track projects such as Cork Light Rail. €1.

FIVE hundred trees are expected to be planted by Cork City Council before the year is out, an official at City Hall has confirmed.

A Cobh early years educator in who converted her own garden into a community allotment for kids, has won an award, writes ELLIE O’BYRNE, in her monthly Green Women column in WoW!

‘CityTrees’ that can improve air quality are being placed in two locations in Cork under €4m funding which has been approved for investment works in the city by the end of November.

MINDY O’BRIEN, Co-ordinator Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment, reacts to Ireland’s National Waste Policy, 2020 to 2025 launched recently by the government

In her weekly column Kathriona Devereux salutes the climate strikers who keep reminding politicians and the ‘grown-ups’ that bold climate action change is needed

Fota is calling on the public to help name the two new arrivals to the park.  Today the park unveiled twin baby Red panda cubs who were born on the 13th June 2020 to mother Bonnie who is 9 years old and father Grga, aged two.

22-year-old Cork student Niamh Damery has won a major award for her attempts to solve the problem of the declining population of the native Irish Black Bee.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has lauded e-bikes as an enjoyable and eco-friendly transport option at the launch of a new campaign in Cork.

The current flooding issue at Cork's Atlantic Pond is set to be resolved later this week, Cork City Council has said.

80,000 tonnes of textile waste is generated in Ireland every year, so says Kathriona Devereux who is encouraging people to take part in #SecondHandSeptember