The latest victims of the Covid 19 pandemic are innocent animals, Mink in Denmark. Scientists recently discovered a mutated form […]
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Are dams a good or bad idea? Dams continue to be built in areas of Asia, Africa and South America. […]
Climate change has already displaced thousands of individuals. It is no surprise that the coming decades could see a vast […]
What are ecobricks? Have you ever heard of ecobricks? I hadn’t until I was listening to the Climate Queens podcast […]
The Reef Mauritius lies in the Indian Ocean about 500 miles off the East coast of Madagascar. It is volcanic […]
Parabens, petrolatum, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) & Coal Tar are common harmful ingredients added to our everyday products.
There’s a dark side beyond your favourite chocolate, child slavery. Children are forced to work for 12 hours in cruel conditions and danger..
Bats hold so much importance for our lives through insect pest predation, pollination, and the potential for immortality!
Try and buy less, focus more on DIY products, always ask questions when you shop for sustainable products and find out more about the company
What does a quieter world mean for wildlife? As life for many of us across the globe slowed down due […]
Sustainable fashion brands in Ireland: Lucy and Yak, Pact, Eileen Fisher, Bogman Beanies, Fresh Cuts Clothing...
Bees pollinate 30% of the world’s crops and 90% of the world’s wild plants! We rely so heavily on bees that if they were to go extinct, we would soon follow.
The calamity happened after a huge fire lit up the skies at the Port of Beirut, which lies on the capital's northern coast of the Mediterranean sea.
In this article, we are going to talk about how you can be more sustainable with your wardrobe and one way to do that is to purchase fabrics & materials that are sustainable.
With all that is currently going on and covid-19 restrictions, we cannot follow through with our usual summer plans of going far away for a couple weeks.
The Covid-19 pandemic has provided fresh impetus to land grabbers felling large parts of the forests while lockdowns have been keeping law enforcement officers in their homes.
Human emissions are a significant contributor to this warming and as the ice-rich permafrost starts to melt and collapse not only in Newtok but all over the Artic, billions of tons of methane and carbon dioxide are being released into the atmosphere which were once locked in the ice.
According to Dog Control Statistics, in Ireland, the figure of dogs being destroyed in pounds decreased from 916 in 2017 to 725 in 2018.
Now more than ever we need to start asking the question of what can WE do? We ALL can do something starting with changing things up a little, just one day a week.
The reality is that the livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than cars, planes, trains and ships combined.
I’m sure we all do our quarterly clean out of our wardrobes and discover we have quite a few clothes we no longer wear. They probably go into a large bin bag for either charity shop donation or to the bin. Fast fashion has a huge impact on our environment.
There are rats being trained by an organisation called APOPO which is based in Tanzania that are saving the lives of many. They are Hero Rats.
The first thing we think of when trying to be more sustainable regarding coffee is our trusty re-usable coffee cup. Yes, this is important, but there is so much more to consider about your delicious caffeinated drink than just the cup it is contained in.
It is estimated that one million pangolins have been hunted in the last decade. Their meat is considered a delicacy and their scales are expensive to purchase therefore are a status symbol that only the wealthy can afford. These shy creatures’ main threat is illegal poaching and trafficking.
The world of cruelty-free products can be a daunting one to enter as it is not always easy to tell […]
Are you on the journey to reduce your environmental impact? Here are some simple buys to make your home more Eco friendly:
The Moringa tree, widely used in the Philippines is a small, scraggly tree with the most amazing nutritional and medicinal […]
A singular church bell tolls as a lonely warning in the small village of Eyam in the northern Derbyshire dales, […]
The purpose of a compost is to nourish the soil in order to grow plants and food more efficiently. The […]
Eighty years ago, the world faced the greatest war of all time and it is somewhat similar to our situation […]
In January 2020, I was lucky enough to start the year off volunteering for the month in the Seychelles. I […]
The food we eat every day has a high cost on our environment, as the soil gets depleted by highly […]
Ever felt vulnerable, subjugated, unable to act, anxious almost all the time? Now ask yourself how does that feel? All […]
I recently arrived back in the Old Sod to find a changed set of circumstances. It seemed like everyone and […]
The Corona Virus is causing untold misery, sickness, death and isolation in every country on the planet. And the worst […]
The rich and the poor, the leaders and the ordinary people, the powerful and the weak, those with influence and those that speak quietly, the entitled and the trodden; the gulf is widening and it’s not in a positive direction
A dry, cold Sunday morning and the Southside Sunday Strollers assembled at the Garden of Remembrance at the top of […]
We are delighted and proud that World Snooker Champion Ken Doherty has joined Ripplezoo as a Brand Ambassador for Our […]
By Enrico Granara, Italian Senior Official, Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) On October 10th in Barcelona, at a meeting of the […]
Plastics are the most common man-made objects sighted at sea, with 18,000 pieces of plastic litter floating on every square […]
At least 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans each year. That’s similar to emptying a garbage truck of […]
Shoppers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year. This translates to about a million bags every […]
First Published in the UCD College Tribune Humans have an incredibly extensive waste problem. Right now, most of that waste is […]
With more than 150 million tonnes of plastic estimated to be in the world’s oceans right now, we here at […]
Two RippleZoo members, Kamila and James, visited Sandymount beach in Dublin, in order to begin our new initiative: a beach […]
Bali ranks as the second in the world (after China) for dumping plastic into the sea. From 8 million tons […]
When we think of endangered animals we tend to think of larger animals such as the giant panda or the […]
Albanian police rescued malnourished and sick animals from the “zoo-hell” in Fier, southwest of the country just a day after […]
Delhi authorities are beginning an “emergency plan of action” to tackle the growing air pollution, reports NDTV. According to the […]
Aizhana Danabekova | 10 Oct 2018, 12:00 pm The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that if global warming […]
In New Zealand, a man has been jailed for 14 days and fined $2,500 for poisoning 406 eagles. Murray James […]
The environment in which we live has a significant impact on our general health, studies have shown, and with increased […]
This week Ikea showed its last plastic straw in a display at London Design Museum after it refused to sell […]
The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than […]
According to an analysis of satellite imagery, the Chinese government is building hundreds of new coal-fired plants. The pictures have […]
Aizhana Danabekova | 20 Sep 2018, 07:00 am Orca or killer whales are now in trouble due to toxic chemical […]
In Chernobyl, an elk was pulled from a radioactive lake, the Kyiv police reports. According to the report, the animal […]
In South Africa, two lion cubs were born via non-surgical artificial insemination, using fresh semen collected from an adult male […]
Tami, the oldest hippopotamus in captivity, passed away last week at the age of 59 in her sleep at Jerusalem’s […]
The European Union can be seen to be one of the largest producers of factory farmed fur in the world […]
Jakarta, one of the largest cities on the planet and the capital of Indonesia, goes underwater at a speed of […]
Scientists are warning that even if all the conditions of the Paris Agreement on Climate are met, the average temperature […]
The officially protected dunes, near the Scottish city of Aberdeen, have been partially destroyed during the construction of the current […]
The European cosmetics and personal care market was valued at 77.6 billion euros in retail sales in 2017, making it […]
Havalur Hf, an Icelandic whaling company, started haunting whales and killed a rare blue hybrid. This was reported by animal […]
Today, the largest coffee company states that it will refuse to use disposable plastic tubing in more than 28,000 coffee […]
A team of scientists discovered a hybrid animal off the coast of Hawaii. A new report by Cascadia Research Collective […]