Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre.

Do come along if you’re free.

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards.

And it's getting worse.
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Another significant environmental crime

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

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WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

On budget day the sheep industry will be looking for yet more increases in direct payments of taxpayers money per head of sheep, despite their own admission that's it's in terminal decline. Why should society be paying out again and again?

www.independent.ie/farming/shee...

Another damning report.

We continue to mortgage the health of both current and future generations to realise short-term economic and development gains in the present.

Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds

Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that are not yet fully understood.

The team identified nine different types...

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Loughrea in Galway becomes the lastest water body to suffer acute poisoning. People warned not to swim or let their dogs near the water.

www.galwaybeo.ie/news/galway-...

Another hardy annual from the EPA here. Ireland still generating more waste, still not managing it properly
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Protections against 'forever chemicals' (PFAS) are patchy across the EU with Ireland among the states that need to do much more, says @healthandenv.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

a few days ago brian kilmeade said homeless people should be executed. jesse waters accused the left of trying to start a civil war. fox news spent years telling verifiable lies about dominion and the 2020 election.

canceling jimmy kimmel isn’t about an offensive line in a monologue. it’s about

There. Is. No. Such. Thing.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

Same.

I'll be talking rewilding with Cormac Hamil at Belfast's Féile an Phobail at 7.30 tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 6th).

I've always found Belfast audiences especially engaged when it comes to rewilding, so I'm expecting this to be another lively, highly stimulating discussion!

Join us if you can!!