Insulating homes and equipping them with heat pumps better for cost of living and UK economy than drilling new oilfields, analysis shows theguardian.com/environment/…

New brief report! A caution on climate hope by Joe Blakey & Marc Hudson. doi.org/10.1080/09644016.202…

Ireland could power itself entirely - data centres and all - be completely energy independent, and with low household prices if we had gone all out for wind turbines, especially off shore. But we'd prefer to remain dependent on expensive imported gas. Again, no vision.

🙌Win for UK nature🙌 The Bristol River Avon has had its rights formally recognised, in a public signing of the Avon bioregional charter of river rights. 1/3

GOLD MINE: Inquiry latest as company argues their project will reduce water pollution levels amid plans to use 44,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate explosives which could add to nitrogen pollution of groundwater, that already breaches conservation limits #environment #pollution

BREAKING: Northern Ireland Environment Agency pulls water pollution limits set for Dalradian gold mine, telling public inquiry chiefs they got them wrong. Asks (rather angry) PAC carry on regardless. “How am I supposed to do that?” says lead commissioner. #WatchBelow

Thanks @QUBelfast& @PFDoran for hosting a fab event on my #LoughNeagh book last Thurs. Thanks to: panellists @LouiseMCullen (@BBCNewsNI),@DevlinMcaliskey &Rebekah McCabe (@InvolveUK);speaker @Jonathan_Rowson;Minister @AndrewMuirNI, for positive engagement waterstones.com/book/the-law…

New article! Just transitions under pressure: from early visions to new proposals and trajectories in the Global South by Yanis Rihi. doi.org/10.1080/09644016.202…

The UK’s spy chiefs examined the impacts of the collapse of overseas ecosystems, under pressure of climate crisis and biodiversity loss, on UK’s national security. Their findings? “Apocalyptic.” UK defence and society at risk, impacts within 5 years. theguardian.com/environment/…

Hundreds turn out at Stormont to protest for clean water following a fourth summer of toxic blue-green algae trib.al/iBNjDdC

While the focal point for many was (understandably) elsewhere in Belfast today, a few hundred demonstrators turned out at Stormont to protest ongoing inaction over Lough Neagh's recovery

Climate change is making Ireland increasingly vulnerable to summer drought as higher temperatures draw more moisture from soils and vegetation, new research has found rte.ie/news/2026/0923/159260…

Construction capacity directed towards data centres driven by speculative, debt-driven market demand, rather than socially-necessary housing and infrastructure projects. The irrational allocation of resources in the name of the AI arms race. thejournal.ie/construction-i…

"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent." That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years. Really, what is the point? itv.com/news/meridian/2026-0…

Thoughtful leader article from the Irish News today on ownership and environmental problems ongoing at the UK's largest freshwater lake, #LoughNeagh!

"Clean water shouldn’t be green or even orange..." MLA Gerry Carroll produced a bottle of green water from Lough Neagh in the Assembly chamber today as a challenge to ministers to address the environmental crisis. Read more from Stormont tinyurl.com/2wjxv3sj

The discovery of a 400-year-old will left by an English soldier has raised doubt about the true ownership of Lough Neagh, a new book has claimed. Dr Thomas Muinzer, a legal academic and author from Northern Ireland, unearthed the will of Sir Arthur Chichester (1563-1625) which was previously thought to have been destroyed in a fire. Read more: tinyurl.com/yp8t7cr3

The front page of today’s Irish News.