The assessment found that crabs, crayfish and shrimps face the highest extinction risk of the groups studied, with 30% under threat, followed by 26% of freshwater fish species, and 16% of dragonflies and damselflies

As much as we don’t want to hear it, rain is one of the things that makes Ireland so special — more than 4,000 lakes adorn the Irish landscape but half of them are unhealthy, with pollution escalating