WATERFORD man and renowned layabout Declan Haskey has doubled down on his claim that his overgrown, weed-filled back garden is actually the perfect habitat for hundreds of thousands of insects, and as such is a wonderful help to the decimated pollinator population in the area. Haskey, 34, hasn’t bothered tending to the 40 feet by 20 feet… Read more »
A NEWLY published report by The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that the majority of beaches around the capital city are now dirtier than yer ma, which is the agency’s highest contamination warning to date. Despite a recent all clear following contamination from the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant last week, the EPA stated that just like yer ma, many of… Read more »
ACCORDING to measures laid out by the Irish government’s Climate Action Plan, people earning below and average wages are the planet’s only hope when it comes to fulfilling carbon emission targets and saving the environment. “We decided against going down the free transport route, it just made way too much sense,” said Minister for Climate Action… Read more »
AFTER LEARNING that a raft of new government proposals to curb carbon emissions and the devastating effects of climate change would involve increased taxes, one local Waterford man has said ‘fuck that’ while stressing the sooner it ends us all, the better. Expressing the same sort of lack of enthusiasm Irish people have for taking… Read more »
A STUDY conducted by the World Wildlife Fund has revealed that people could be ingesting an astonishing 5 grams of plastic a week, such is the ubiquity of plastics in our societies. However, those seeking to partake in a balanced diet may be worried their inadvertent consumption of plastics through plastic bottles and shellfish consumption… Read more »
IN the past number of years the public have agreed with those in charge that the main things killing this planet are single-use plastics. Drinking straws, cotton buds, betting shop biros, things like that. Not huge tax-dodging corporations who lobby governments to find new ways to pollute the planet on an industrial scale. On the… Read more »
A SHOCKING new report into the DNA makeup of modern day human beings has found that a staggering 7% of our bodies now contain some form of micro plastic, a 6% rise in only a decade. Scientists from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and NUI Galway published the report yesterday, and called on the government to intervene and… Read more »
FOLLOWING the news that raw sewage from as many as 38 towns and villages in Ireland continue to flow into our waters every day, WWN Beauty explores whether or not this hip new trend which has been going unpunished for 13 years is good for your skin. Who doesn’t want lovely clear skin? Presuming that… Read more »
THE DIRE prognoses from climate scientists about how we may have a decade or less to save humanity and avert catastrophic climate change disaster on earth has shocked millions into action, with many readers getting in touch with WWN Environment to ask if there is a more effective way to ignore the warnings other than… Read more »
IN A BID to get Ireland on the right environmental track and to push against the resistance to fight climate change on a local level, electric car manufacturer Tesla has launched its first turf-powered car. “Baby steps lads,” Tesla confirmed at the launched of the car in the wilds of the Roscommon which has been… Read more »