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Ella McSweeney

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As seen in: The Guardian, The Irish Times, RTÉ, TheJournal.ie, Business Post, Der Freitag, Tera News
irish, journalist. farming, food, land. own views. peripatetic!
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Ella McSweeney: Is your beloved pet a destructive predator?

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By Ella McSweeney , ella mcsweeney
| The Irish Times
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists it among the world’s worst invasive species. It kills 60 million birds in Canada every year; in the US, it’s an estimated 2.4 billion birds and 12 billion mammals – that’s more than cars, windows and wind turbines combined. A 2023 global assessment found it preys on more than 2,000 species, one in six of which are of conservation concern. It has driven 73 species to extinction and now threatens 433 more.
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Ireland’s mayflies are ancient creatures - older than dinosaurs by 80 million years

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By Ella McSweeney , ella mcsweeney
| The Irish Times
If you don’t fish and you’re not a regular on one of our big western limestone lakes – the likes of Lough Corrib, Mask, Carra, Sheelin and Derg – the excitement around “the mayfly” might seem a bit baffling. Think of it this way: it’s a sunny May evening, and a bunch of kids are happily playing in a playground, when suddenly someone bursts open a huge piñata and sweets rain down everywhere.
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This is why Ireland needs to stop forcing parents to buy their children laptops for school

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By Ella McSweeney , ella mcsweeney
| The Irish Times
There’s a photo taken by an AFP photographer that’s been circling the internet for a decade. It shows a woman standing on the bank of a 12sq km toxic reservoir in Inner Mongolia. It’s a vast, black, viscous lake of chemical and radioactive sludge generated by rare-earth-minerals processing. The lake is the Weikuang Dam on the outskirts of Baotou, a city of about two million people in northern China, which has long called itself the world capital of rare-earths production.
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