This week, to Celebrate Biodiversity week, some lucky nature enthusiasts won a trip to Lambay and Rockabill Islands to experience the wildlife that they support. Alongside the Puffins, Roseate Terns and Grey and Common Seals, onlookers were surprised to see Wallabies. But they turned out to be difficult to find in the foliage of Lambay Island.
May 19th, 2016 To celebrate National Biodiversity Week, which runs every year in May, Dublin-based NGO Global Action Plan (GAP) invited classes from Ballymun schools to take part in Nature Trail experience celebrating our local heritage. On the 16th of May students from Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch, Our Lady of Read more…
The World Health Organisation today released figures on air pollution in cities, which revealed that Bray, Longford, Galway and Dublin breached safe pollution limits. WHO has said that 80% of people living in monitored urban areas are exposed to unsafe air quality levels. Being exposed to air pollution increases the likelihood of stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory diseases such as asthma.
May 12th, 2016 The thought of throwing out 4,000+ nappies over the course of their child’s infant years, each taking up to 500 years to decompose in landfill, inspired this North County Dublin couple to try out cloth nappies. This one move triggered them to pursue a wider move towards reducing Read more…
The heritage organisation has dismissed the campaign as ’empty PR’, while the semi-state company continues to extract peat on an industrial scale, in what An Taisce’s Climate Change Committee spokesperson John Gibbons describes as ‘one of the least sustainable and most environmentally unfriendly industries on the face of the planet’.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has today released 2015 figures on composting and AD of biodegradable waste in Ireland. The quantity of biodegradable waste that was sent for composting or Anaerobic Digestion (AD) increased in 2015 by 11% since 2013, but 22% of brown-bin waste was exported to Northern Ireland.
Image Credit: Larry Doherty April 28th, 2016 While most people use Sunday mornings to lie in and catch up on sleep, this Sunday people all around the world will be setting their alarms for 5am. As dawn breaks this Sunday, Ireland will join the rest of the world in celebrating International Dawn Read more…
26th April, 2016 A proposal by Fine Gael Councillor Paddy Smyth to reconfigure parking arrangements to improve cycling safety in Dublin’s Georgian quarter and Fingal County Council’s motion to establish a Cycling and Walking Officer post suggest that cyclist needs are being taken more seriously. In a video on the Read more…
The ESB, National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS), Cork County Council and Inland Fisheries Ireland are exploring options to potentially save a rare river forest in County Cork.
The Gearagh, near Macroom , County Cork, was controversially flooded 60 years ago to provide water for the hydroelectric dams at Inniscarra and Carrigadrohid.
20th April, 2016 Cement production, aviation, and greater energy use from Moneypoint power station has led to a 5.5 per cent increase in emissions in one year, the Environmental Protection Agency have found. Irish sectors participating in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) reported an increase of 5.5% in greenhouse Read more…
