(EcoEye S7, E5)
Item 1: Exploring the south west’s marine biodiversity
Item 2: Energy efficient lightbulbs
Item 3: Recycling lightbulbs and batteries
Posts Tagged ‘biodiversity’
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Episode 05
(Eco Eye s1/e5)
The Big Picture
Around the country, more than 150,000 homes get their drinking water from Group Water Schemes fed by wells, groundwater springs, lakes or water from their local authority. Nearly half of these are polluted and the EU is threatening legal action over the appalling state of them. This item investigates [...]
Episode 03
(Eco Eye s1/e3)
The Big Picture
This item investigates rural water quality and how it is under threat from septic tank pollution. Septic tanks are now used by one and a quarter million rural homes around Ireland but they are probably the most basic and least effective technology that deals with wastewater and raw sewage on-site because [...]
Episode 04
(Eco Eye s2/e4)
Eutrophication
People have been fishing in the waters of Lough Conn in County Mayo for hundreds of years. But one fish they won’t be catching is an ancient species stranded in Lough Conn 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age that had survived until only recently. The artic char, a [...]
Episode 01
(Eco Eye s2/e1)
Nuclear Power
Ireland is a nuclear-free country, however, the reality is that, due to our proximity to nuclear installations in Britain, we live under a real threat of fallout from a nuclear accident or explosion. The UK has 27 nuclear facilities, some of them half a century old. The first – Windscale [...]