Deeproot Blog: Green Infrastructure for Your Community – blog and articles: Green Streets have become a more common feature of the urban landscape in cities and towns across the United States and abroad. And for good reason: they provide substantial value in community aesthetics, redevelopment, livability and environmental compliance. You may know from personal experience […]
‘Information is power’ Two ways of looking at the UK’s fisheries statistics; MMO produce the year on year details stats on UK fisheries, whilst in Shetland Ian Napier has produced a comparison of UK and EU fleet catches for the SFA. Not surprisingly the report has provided ammunition to fishermen’s groups campaigning for a more […]
Laura Briggs: Ecologist Biofuels from seaweed? Seaweed is known for its culinary uses and has seen a renaissance in past years thanks to its health claims and a distinctive taste – but there are more ecological benefits to seaweed that currently remain untapped. More research is needed in the areas of bioactives and conversion technologies […]
Ballast Water Management – Why does it matter? Hannah Freeman WWT: ‘Last week Finland ratified the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Ballast Water Management Convention. The 52nd contracting party tipped the target of 35% world shipping tonnage and triggered entry into force by September 2017. We’ve been waiting a long time for this, as the convention […]
COAST ‘Protection agency set to approve salmon farm expansion in Arran’s MPA: West coast communities fighting for more say in MPA management ‘The Scottish Salmon Company might sound like a purveyor of wild salmon owned and run by our fellow Scots. But unfortunately, this is not the case. As many west coast communities know to their cost, the […]
According to a report published today, measures to cut down underwater noise could reduce the negative impact that offshore wind power development has on harbour porpoise populations in UK waters. The research, conducted by SMRU Consulting exclusively for WWF-UK, used noise reduction scenarios to identify the benefits of reducing noise by set amounts, against a baseline […]
Property level resilience has been understood and well documented in the UK for 20 years, and an effective supply chain in place for at least 10 years. Yet very little of the £1 billion + paid out annually by insurers to households damaged by flooding is used to install even simple resilience measures that would […]
The image of Carlisle BT car park and its service vans underwater from many years ago, and the lessons of 2007 and the Pitt Review seem still not to have got through. How can it be that there are still 530 critical infrastructure sites still at serious risk? Damned by faint praise reviewers cut to […]