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It is well known that if chemicals from domestic sources enter water bodies via sewage treatment plants, agriculture, and industry, this can endanger freshwater ecosystems. In order to find out mo ...

Tipperary County Council is carrying out a series of farm inspections throughout this month in the River Suir catchment area.

As Irish dairy farmers focus on the climate challenge, 95% have signed up to sustainability initiatives that are addressing the sector’s environmental impact

Rivers Trust, which included the Republic and North in an ecological health survey for first time, says findings underscore urgent need to safeguard freshwater environment

Dairy processors who are worried about potentially stranded assets have called for the Government to create an ‘interdepartmental taskforce’ that would assess the implication of a further cut to the Nitrates Derogation.

‘Drastic’ reductions to stocking rates on dairy farms will be required in certain catchments in order to reduce the level of nitrate water pollution as required by the EU’s Water Framework Directive, An Taisce has warned.

The European Commission has referred Ireland to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to fully report its river basin management plan.

Programme focused on getting about 100 landowners to help stop run-off pollution into tributaries which primarily feed into the River Blackwater

River regulation, invasive animal and plant species, global climate change, and pollution—humans are severely impacting the ecosystems of rivers and streams.

In 2023, the Nordic Council aid it was aiming to intensify efforts to combat food waste — but despite wanting to focus on this during the COP28, Norway has not yet passed a food waste law of its own.