18 Jun 2026

Image description: River Lee running through Cork City. Image by Daniel Byram from Pixabay.   Ireland’s water quality remained largely unimproved in 2025, according to the EPA’s latest monitoring report. Excess nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorus from agriculture, wastewater discharge and runoff, continue to degrade water bodies across the country. Improvements in some rivers and lakes were offset […]

15 Jul 2025

A new study published in Nature has found that nanoplastics—plastic particles smaller than one micrometre—now appear to make up the majority of plastic pollution in the ocean. Researchers from Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research estimated that around 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics are present in the upper layers of the North Atlantic Ocean, based […]