Councillors representing people living in one of the hot spots for radon gas in Ireland have urged Minister for the Environment John Gormley to provide grants for remedial measures for homes and offices where high levels of the cancer-causing gas are detected.

Curry spices could hold the key to reducing the enormous greenhouse gas emissions given off by grazing animals such as sheep, cows and goats, scientists have claimed.

High-profile business leaders from household names across Europe have urged ministers to push for tougher emissions targets.

Low-carbon technologies in the UK must continue to get government support, or risk falling into the 'valley of death' where they never reach market, according to the latest report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

The European Union must raise its emissions targets if it is to compete with the likes of China, Japan or the United States in the race for green technology, ministers from some of the bloc's most powerful nations have said.

Fehily Timoney and Company (FTC) has been awarded a contract by the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a Noise Guidance Note for Assessment of Wind Turbine Operations.

TOBIN Consulting Engineers has recently been appointed to perform sound level and noise compliance monitoring for a major outdoor concert at Marlay Park, Dublin.

A research team at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have invented a type of paving material that can be mixed in with normal asphalt or concrete that actually removes some pollutants from the air as cars travel over the surface.

The European Union air pollutant emission inventory report, compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA) shows that the EU-27 has cut sulphur oxides (SOx) emissions by 78% since 1990.

Greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industry currently regulated under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme will be capped at 1,926,876,368 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2013, the EU Commission has announced.