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Media personality and environmentalist, Duncan Stewart, journeyed to Athlone recently for the inaugural hosting of the Arcadia Climate Awards.

One of the most popular festivals for young and old, the Galway Science and Technology Festival, has returned to Galway this month.

Galway Science and Technology Festival (GSTF) returns from November 7-21 as part of Science Foundation Ireland’s National Science Week. As a blended Festival with both in-person and online events, it will offer its trademark sense of fun and excitement to humans of all ages.

Galway Science and Technology Festival (GSTF) returns from November 7-21 as part of Science Foundation Ireland’s National Science Week. As a blended Festival with both in-person and online events, it will offer its trademark sense of fun and excitement to humans of all ages.

The recent United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report signed off by 195 governments is a truly terrifying read. It makes clear that Global Warming- characterised by more intense and frequent heatwaves, storms, rainfall, flooding and melting glaciers as well as rising sea levels, is due to human activity. It further stated that no part of the world is safe from its consequences and that these changes are accelerating.

The Galway National Park City initiative with President Michael D Higgins as its patron recently launched a website in the hope that it will become a major resource and information hub in helping to integrate nature into the fabric of the city.

Environmental community groups across the county were recently featured in a new online video series, which attracted thousands of viewers from across the world.

Over the last year, COVID has forced most of the population of Ireland to spend an unprecedented amount of their time at home. Cut off from family, friends and colleagues and unable to travel, home has changed from not only being our domestic abode but to also becoming our workplace, our gym and our play zone. But squeezing so much under one roof 24/7 is not easy and it can, if we allow it to, feel too often like a prison.

Last Thursday, President Michael D. Higgins gave a powerful thought-provoking speech to an online (via Webex) meeting of people of all ages drawn from a wide strata of local society on why the movement towards transforming Galway into a National Park City is so crucial at this particular time in human history due to unprecedented climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics, and why it can be a template for other cities in Ireland to follow.

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