
Co Derry water sports centre to close due to blue-green algae outbreak
A Co Derry water sports centre is to close permanently following the outbreak of toxic blue-green algae in the River Bann.
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Swimming restrictions remain in place at top bathing spots
News from the Irish Examiner’s team of reporters
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Irish Examiner view: Clean water is a right, but it is not free
last year, 191,000 people faced water restrictions, or were obliged to boil the water that came from their taps
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Drugs, including antidepressants, widespread in Irish rivers, water study finds
Antidepressants and antibiotics are widespread in Irish rivers, some at ‘high-risk’ concentrations, a study has found.
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Swimming restrictions introduced for beaches in Dublin, Galway and Donegal
The EPA says the poor water quality issues have arisen from wastewater discharges, run-off from urban and agricultural lands and animal fouling
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Watch: On the Record - increase in dairy herd ‘unsustainable’ - EPA
Transformation is needed in agriculture, the director general at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned.
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Anja Murray: Life and death on Irish rivers
Rivers across the country are becoming increasingly polluted through negligence, carelessness, and greed
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Earth Day: Preventing further nature decline in Ireland
This Earth Day, we look at Ireland’s failing state of nature as Buzz makes a promise to its readers
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Ireland’s new Marine Protected Area legislation: the journey so far - Green News Ireland
As the Programme for Government alludes, MPAs are a big opportunity to address the biodiversity (and climate) crisis at a national level. In relation to MPAs, the EU Biodiversity Strategy calls for 30% of EU waters to be protected in a MPA by 2030.
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Ireland must act to preserve access to clean drinking water, Government warned
The head of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss outlined the implications of not taking steps to preserve the natural environment as a report on its work was published.
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‘You don’t need a river or drain on your farm for nitrate to be leaching’
Your farm doesn’t have to have a river or stream running through it or even a drain for nitrate to be leaching from the farm into local rivers or streams.
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Ireland’s new Marine Protected Area legislation: the journey so far | FairSeas
Fortunately, the process of developing and drafting Ireland’s new MPA legislation is well underway and Fair Seas have had the opportunity to feed into this process.
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Uisce Éireann should have ‘better ambition’ about keeping sewage from watercourses
Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss unanimously recommends urgent action by the national water body
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‘Like you’re in a horror movie’: pollution leaves New Zealand wetlands irreversibly damaged
Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recover
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‘Vampiric overuse’ of water is draining Earth’s precious lifeblood, warns UN chief
Water is being overlooked in climate planning and funding, scientists have said, despite half the world’s population facing acute water stress by 2030.
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‘Devastating loss’ of Irish plant life revealed in 20-year study
Plant Atlas 2020 shows 56% decline in Ireland’s native wild plants, with habitats affected by farming and forestry
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‘Ship has reached shore’: UN seals deal to protect oceans after 20 years’ talking
Negotiators from more than 100 countries completed a UN treaty to protect the high seas after 20 years of drawn-out talks.
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1,800 tonnes of raw sewage enters Clare coast daily
The Environmental Protection Agency has said 1,800 tonnes of raw sewage is entering the Clare coastline each day and the issue will not be fully resolved until 2025.
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Our seas are not in good shape but sea life could rebound with a network of ‘marine protected areas’
On land we have national parks and nature reserves and Ireland’s territorial sea area is around 10 times that of our land — now we have a target of protecting 30% of our marine waters by the end of the decade
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Scale up of protected marine areas will not be unduly restrictive, Oireachtas committee told
Ensuring ‘stakeholder consultation’ critical to effective MPAs in Ireland, marine ecologist says
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Greater Skellig coast to be marked as area of critical importance to marine conservation
Area home to critically endangered sharks, seabird colonies, and animals threatened with extinction
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Ireland to be referred to EU court over water directive
The European Commission will refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to correctly transpose the Water Framework Directive into Irish law - despite the signing into law in Ireland last month of new water-related legislation to addresses their concerns.
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Louth TD to present River Boyne Task Force Bill to Dáil next month
Louth TD Ged Nash is set to present a new Bill to the Oireachtas that seeks to protect the future of what he calls the region’s ‘most precious natural resource’, the Boyne River.
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What is stopping people from using Ireland’s blue spaces?
Seas, rivers and lakes are proven to improve health and wellbeing, yet there are barriers which prevent many of us from using them
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Ireland’s fishing crisis: Trawler operators fear they will lose out to offshore windfarms
Concerns over loss of fishing waters and how construction and operation of windfarms may scare fish from traditional grounds
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Charity ‘Cork Nature Network’ launch online education pack for primary schools @CorkNatNetwork
16 January 2023 By Mary Bermingham mary@TheCork.ie Cork Nature Network is delighted to launch a new education pack designed for primary schools. The e
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