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Water Quality Week The Teagasc Water Quality Week runs throughout the week of Monday, 22nd March to Friday, 26th March. Water quality week is being organised in collaboration with the dairy processing co-ops and the Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO). During the week Teagasc and its partners will provide water quality focused information and advice to farmers to help minimise losses of nutrients, sediment and pesticides to water from their farming practices. Noel Meehan, Programme Manager with the Agricultural Sustainability Support and Advisory Programme (ASSAP) said; “Water Quality...

As we look to the future we can look to an initiative of the recent past that is playing a very real role in the shaping of that future, by addressing or indeed redressing the very real concerns of biodiversity loss and knock-on reductions in pollinator numbers. The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, 2015-2020, has motivated and inspired groups and people the length and breadth of the country to undertake actions in their locality to improve conditions for nature to thrive and a publication remarking on some of these success stories, titled 'Working Together for Biodiversity: Tales from the All-Ire...

Concern over removal of riverside trees in Limerick Reporter: 11 Feb 2021 '); The Maigue catchment we have almost 1,300km of river channel. The Maigue, Loobagh, Morningstar, Camoge, Barnakyle, Clonshire, flow through Charleville, Kilfinane, Kilmallock, Bruff, Knocklong, Bruree, Croom, Patrickswell, Adare, to name but a few. In the past three months, the Maigue Rivers Trust has received three reports from local people highlighting tree removal along sections of the rivers. Riverside trees are essential to healthy rivers but often their value is not fully appreciated until it is too late. Dete...

The World Meteorlogical Organisation has recently published its Provisional Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2020, noting that this year is on course to be one of the three warmest years on record worldwide. Ireland's meteorological data for 2020 also provides further evidence of a warming Ireland, according to Met Éireann. 2020 is on course to be the joint ninth warmest year on record in Ireland and the 10th consecutive year with an above normal temperature. Analysis has shown that February was the wettest February in over 50 years with 252% of normal rain falling. Commentin...