06 Oct 2025
Seabird Resilience Fund: Taking Flight – now open for applications SMEEF is delighted to announce the launch of the first open grants round of the Seabirds Resilience Fund. ‘Taking Flight’ is designed to accelerate progress against the Scottish Seabird Conservation Action Plan and its aim of maximising seabird prospects and building resilience in seabird populations. […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: Aerial image of sewage treatment facility. Image by Photo by Ivan Bandura on Unsplash UK Pennon group eyeing profitability for 2025-26 South West Water owner Pennon has reported a “strong return to profitability” despite higher costs borne during the summer drought and the UK’s hottest summer on record. The FTSE 250 water […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: A water pipe flowing into a river. Photo by Jacob Antony on Unsplash Internal documents and data shared with BBC News have highlighted that the Environment Agency (EA) has been struggling to monitor incidents of serious pollution. An internal EA document from this year states that all potentially serious incidents should be […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: The Thames at night with the landmark Shard illuminated on the left. Image by Phil Reid on Unsplash. Sky News reported that the group of lenders which are in pole position to own Thames Water and keep it out of government ownership “are to pledge to the industry regulator [Ofwat] that they […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: A water glass held up by a hand. Image by Manki Kim on Unsplash. Thames Water’s desalination plant, officially known as the Thames Gateway, has cost more than half a billion pounds since 2010 and has run only five times. Over 15 years it has delivered 7.2bn litres of drinking water, equating […]
02 Oct 2025
Image description: aerial shot of a water treatment plant. Photo by Ian on Unsplash Financial regulator Ofwat, in response to a freedom of information request by Save Windermere campaigning group, revealed United Utilities had been allocated £129m since 2000 to connect non-mains systems, mostly septic tanks, to the mains sewer network and reduce sewage pollution. […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by NASA Seven of nine boundaries now transgressed The 2025 Planetary Health Check reveals that seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been breached, with ocean acidification joining the danger zone for the first time. The assessment demonstrates that more than three-quarters of Earth’s support systems are not in the safe zone, marking […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by Ricardo Resende Industry rejects scientific advice as catastrophic The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has recommended zero catch quotas for all cod stocks in the Northern Shelf for 2026, prompting strong responses from fishing industry representatives who warn the advice could devastate fleets across Scotland and England. Mike […]
