23 Aug 2022
Pollution warnings were put in place for dozens of beaches in England and Wales after untreated sewage was discharged into the sea around the coast. Southern Water is one of the water companies responsible for those regions, along with Wessex Water and South West Water. In a statement, they said: “There were thunderstorms accompanied by […]
23 Aug 2022
UK participation in EU science schemes, including the €95.5-billion Horizon Europe, is now subject to a formal dispute triggered by the UK deepening concerns among researchers and universities that the U.K. is poised to pull out altogether. The European Commission has chosen to link Britain’s previously-agreed involvement in Horizon Europe projects with the ongoing row […]
23 Aug 2022
Coastal wetlands can play an effective role in climate change adaptation and mitigation, by protecting shorelines and material assets from flooding and storm damage and trapping and storing CO2 from the atmosphere. They have been subject to high levels of historic modification through drainage and land-use change, which likely contributed to past CO2 emissions but […]
23 Aug 2022
Bycatch monitoring programmes in the UK estimate that thousands of cetaceans, seabirds, seals and elasmobranchs are caught each year. Through the Fisheries Act 2020 and the Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS), the UK government and devolved administrations have recognised the need to minimise and, where possible, eliminate bycatch of these sensitive marine species as part of […]
23 Aug 2022
After warnings to the public to keep away from a walrus that has been spending its time in the Oslo fjord were not heeded, and discussions about options, the authorities decided that the walrus should be shot because of “the continued threat to human safety”. Following the hardly surprising public outrage (click here) the Norwegian […]
16 Aug 2022
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has suspended its Certification of Rockall Haddock effective of 23 July 2022 after a recommendation by the independent conformity assessment body (CAB). With the suspension now in place, fish caught on or after 23 July 2022 will no longer meet the MSC Standard and therefore cannot carry the blue MSC […]
16 Aug 2022
UN member states will gather in New York next week to hammer out a long-awaited treaty that, if agreed, will govern the planet’s last, lawless wilderness: the high seas. Two hundred nautical miles beyond the territorial waters and jurisdiction of nations, the high seas have been treated “recklessly”, according to environmental groups. Warning that the […]
16 Aug 2022
Introducing in the latest issue of ECO magazine, the senior editor Kira Coley writes that “the potential of blue carbon goes well beyond the restoration of important coastal habitats and mitigating climate change. If done right, there is also potential to grow economies, improve the livelihoods of local communities and see financial returns for those […]
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