Water in the News

Antidepressants and antibiotics are widespread in Irish rivers, some at ‘high-risk’ concentrations, a study has found.

The EPA says the poor water quality issues have arisen from wastewater discharges, run-off from urban and agricultural lands and animal fouling

Transformation is needed in agriculture, the director general at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned.

Rivers across the country are becoming increasingly polluted through negligence, carelessness, and greed

This Earth Day, we look at Ireland’s failing state of nature as Buzz makes a promise to its readers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss unanimously recommends urgent action by the national water body

Ecologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recover

Water is being overlooked in climate planning and funding, scientists have said, despite half the world’s population facing acute water stress by 2030.

Plant Atlas 2020 shows 56% decline in Ireland’s native wild plants, with habitats affected by farming and forestry

Negotiators from more than 100 countries completed a UN treaty to protect the high seas after 20 years of drawn-out talks.

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.

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

Ensuring ‘stakeholder consultation’ critical to effective MPAs in Ireland, marine ecologist says

Area home to critically endangered sharks, seabird colonies, and animals threatened with extinction

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.

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.

Seas, rivers and lakes are proven to improve health and wellbeing, yet there are barriers which prevent many of us from using them

Concerns over loss of fishing waters and how construction and operation of windfarms may scare fish from traditional grounds

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