Highland Radio – Weekly Tips 43 – Climate Action Awards

Did you know? Climate Heroes is a team-based climate challenge. > https://www.climateheroes.ie/en-ie/  All you need is a phone, a leader and some team members! > https://youtu.be/LhNnH02vikY  The goal is to learn simple, cost-free actions to reduce your carbon footprint. Why it’s important! Each person who took part in the competition saw a CO2 reduction of […]

LMFM – Weekly Episode 50 – Climate Change Turbulence, EPA and Tidy Towns

On this week’s episode: Air turbulence is becoming more prevalent as climate changes, according to an analyst from an airline safety and product rating site. Speaking about the Singapore Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Bangkok last week after hitting severe turbulence, AirlineRatings’ Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas said that a university research in the […]

LMFM – Weekly Tips 50 – Tidy Towns

Top 10 Tips to become a SuperValu TidyTowns Winner Community – Your Planning and Involvement – The most effective TidyTowns groups are the ones with broad representation from across the community involving residents, businesses and public bodies, of all ages and backgrounds. As shown throughout the country in previous SuperValu TidyTowns competition winning towns, villages […]

LMFM – Weekly Tips 49 – EU emissions report, ESRI study and EPA water quality

The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5% last year, official data published this past week showed, continuing a trend of declining emissions in Europe. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, where climate change is already worsening droughts, wildfires and fatal heatwaves. Having set legally-binding targets to reduce its contribution to […]

LMFM – Weekly Episode 49 – EU emissions report, ESRI study and EPA water quality

On this week’s episode: The European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5% last year, continuing a trend of declining emissions in Europe. It’s the world’s fastest-warming continent, where climate change is already worsening droughts, wildfires and fatal heatwaves. Having set legally-binding targets to reduce its contribution to global warming, the 27-country EU is now […]

LMFM – Weekly Tips 48 – Hottest April

April 2024 was warmer globally than any previous April in the data record, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 15.03°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for April and 0.14°C above the previous high set in April 2016.    This is the eleventh month in a row that is the warmest in the ERA5 data […]

LMFM – Weekly Episode 48 – Hottest April, Drogheda students & climate survey

On this week’s episode: The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which each month was the hottest recorded month on record. The startling statistics are contained in the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) monthly bulletin. We hear from its Climate Scientist Julien Nicolas. Two students from […]