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

Further concerns have been raised about the broken tidal gate at the Atlantic Pond in Cork City and the need to get it fixed as soon as possible.

Eighteen dead lime trees along Centre Park Road are to be felled as they pose a risk to health and safety, Cork City Council has stated.

ANOTHER prestigious accolade has been awarded to Kinsale native Sophie Healy Thow, who first came to the attention of the public thanks to her work with the BT Young Scientist Exhibition at the age of 15.

WEST Cork TD, Christopher O’Sullivan has called on Cork County Council and the National Parks and Wildlife service to act and protect Cork’s beauty spots that are being tarnished by careless tourists.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is tending to its vast gardens with the conservation of animals and nature in mind. The UCC Buildings and Estates team take care of the grass, plants and gardens across the 42-acre university campus at the heart of Cork city.

Covid-19 has been a crisis that has presented the world with an opportunity when it comes to reducing air pollution, says ANTHONY ANGELINI, a part-time lecturer at UCC

MARY HASSETT catches up with the Executive Horticulturist of Cork City Council to find out about the pollinator friendly initiatives around the city

In her monthly Green Women column, ELLIE O’BYRNE hears how Cork dressmaker turned beekeeper Hanna Backmo got busy in lockdown

CONCERN for local biodiversity that may have been damaged by a recent felling of 15 mature trees in Mallow Town Park in May was raised by Green Party Councillor Liam Quaide on Monday.

Cork County Councillor Danny Collins has called on the council to put pressure on the Government to lengthen the hedge cutting season. The Independent West Cork Councillor said the matter is one of urgency and an issue of health and safety.

IT WAS Ireland's only source of natural gas for years but production has now ceased at the Kinsale gas fields after 42 years.