Two articles:   Also see Planetary Boundaries Stockholm Resilience Institute This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown IPPR – Institute for Public Policy Research     ‘Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic […]

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Lauren Mattingley   Science Officer Salmon & Trout Conservation  ‘Whichever way you look at it, our rivers and coastal waters are inextricably linked. A plastic bottle casually tossed away in the middle of the country, blown on the breeze into a river tributary will make its way, over time to open water, by which time it’ll […]

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Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers Abstract Journal of Biological Conservation: Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers. Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to […]

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Guardian  ‘Lords say government failing to act as industry blames non-compliance on ‘flawed design’ About 1.7m tonnes of fish are discarded across the EU every year, because fleets catch fish for which they do not have a quota. Public backing for a ban on discarding edible fish at sea has been thwarted by the reluctance of the […]

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Guardian: ‘The backers of a pioneering project to harness energy from the tides off the Welsh coast have rebooted the scheme and believe they can build it without the help of government.  With the recent failure of two major nuclear projects, attention has turned to alternatives to fill the low-carbon power gap, with developers of windfarms and […]

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An Oil rig has permit to dump 6.7k tonnes of chemicals in Poole Bay, and it is due to arrive tomorrow bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17399387.… Follow this on the Save Our Shores Bournemouth website  AN oil firm has gained permission to dump more than 6,700 tonnes of drilling chemicals in Poole Bay.  The rig ENSCO 72 was due […]

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