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Climate change creates cabbage shortage for St. Patrick’s Day (IrishCentral)

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:31:36 PST

By: PATRICK O'SHEA

You may have to hold the cabbage in the corn beef and cabbage this year for Saint Patrick’s Day.

Time to rethink rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy - government needs to rethink climate change policies (IrishCentral)

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:00:47 PDT

Part of Long Island were badly damaged by the Superstorm SandyThe “Super Storm” which devastated so much of the east coast last week, is really just the latest in a series of great storms which have, in recent years, molested America’s shoresStorms have always plagued coastal areas However, the damage left in the wake of these storms is becoming more severe and ever more costly Sandy, a hurricane/ tropical storm/ nor’easter hybrid, devastated my community on Long Island and left me stranded in a city far away, unable to return home due to a crippled transportation system READ MORE

Scientists get clues on climate change by looking back to Ireland’s Ice Age (IrishCentral)

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:38:49 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Irish scientists are looking back hundreds of thousands of years to Ireland’s last ice age in order to better understand the climate changes happening within the country today. Their research has also helped determine why Ireland’s topography is the way it is, according to the Irish Times.

Ireland will devote $30 million to aid addressing climate change in developing countries (IrishCentral)

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:27:17 PST

By: CATHY HAYES

Ireland’s Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, has announced the details relating to the $30 million funding package to aid developing countries in addressing climate change.

Floods have brought home devastation of climate change to Irish, says Mary Robinson (IrishCentral)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:21:56 PST

By: FRIEDA KLOTZ

The former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, has an Irish phrase to describe how she feels about the world – “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine,” or in her English translation, “it’s in each other’s shadow that we survive.”

Nobel expert: Global warming causing Irish floods, climate change (IrishCentral)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:23:25 PST

By: PATRICK REYNOLDS

Giant’s Causeway could be swallowed up by sea in climate change crisis (IrishCentral)

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:14:34 PDT

By: KENNETH HAYNES

The Giants Causeway, one of Ireland's most important heritage landscapes, is at risk of being swallowed up by the sea.