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The MV Alta, a 77m Tanzanian registered cargo ship which had been abandoned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean for 17 months, washed up on rocks near Ballycotton in east Cork last weekend. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/AFP via Getty
Waste materials to be airlifted from MV Alta wreck

Oil and other waste materials are due to be airlifted from the wreck of the MV Alta in Cork next week. Cork County Council’s oil spill assessment tea(...)

Environmentalist Karin Dubsky will be the Green Party candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Wexford constituency expected in November. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
Karin Dubsky among Green Party candidates for by-elections

The well-known environmentalist Karin Dubsky will be the Green Party candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Wexford constituency expected in late(...)

Preliminary results of a survey conducted has found that drink containers constitute the most widespread type of litter on the Irish coastline. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Litter poses greater threat than pollution to coastline, audit finds

A “snapshot” audit of the Irish coastline has found that recreational litter posed a greater threat to its health this year than water pollution. Pr(...)