05 May 2021
Natural England have released a comprehensive report on the Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Habitat 2021. It describes in detail the role different types of natural habits in Britain play in capturing carbon from the atmosphere. This comes weeks before the Environment Agency plan to release a similar report ‘Achieving Net Zero carbon emissions – a […]
05 May 2021
Waterwise link Water UK release Everyone is being encouraged to make every drop count this summer as Water UK joins forces with water efficiency experts, Waterwise, to launch their 2021 Water’s Worth Saving campaign. Water’s Worth Saving aims to drive change in how we use water – we need to act fast and do more, […]
05 May 2021
From the Guardian A river in the Lake District is getting its curves back in order to reduce the risk of flooding, with storm damage and landslides set to become more widespread in the national park by 2060. Homes and businesses in the Ullswater valley have been devastated by floods in recent years. Storm Desmond […]
05 May 2021
George Warren, Senior Policy Officer in Climate Change Adaptation & UK Susdrain SuDS Champion 2020 It’s all about small distributed #SuDS!!! Those whom know me will be familiar with me constantly banging on about the need to deliver small #SuDS at scale and how important it is that delivery organisations are able to unlock the […]
27 Apr 2021
Salmon & Trout Conservation ‘The Environment Agency (EA) turned 25 years old this April but our waters will not be celebrating. The freshwater aquatic environment is polluted, fragmented and we face a biodiversity crisis with many freshwater species in steep decline or even at risk of extinction, including iconic species such as the Atlantic salmon. […]
27 Apr 2021
Watch the video of the oral evidence to the EAC from some of the Governments most vocal critics Professor Peter Hammond (retired) Professor of Computational Biology at University College London (UCL), and Senior Fellow in Medical Image Analysis at University of Oxford Big Data Institute Professor Rebecca Malby Co-founder at Ilkley Clean River Group Pete Lloyd […]
27 Apr 2021
‘Biden vows to slash US emissions by half to meet ‘existential crisis of our time’ US president tells virtual climate summit that ‘time is short’ to address dangerous global heating in a break from Trump era. The initiative has also fostered a new climate of co-operation between world leaders’ – Guardian overview Climate Action Tracker: […]
27 Apr 2021
Announcing the winners of the first Innovation in Water Challenge Wednesday 21 April 2021 – Innovations that turn ammonia in wastewater into green energy and use artificial intelligence (AI) or unexploited telecoms cables to detect leaks in the water network are among the winners of Ofwat’s inaugural £2 million Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC). Eleven collaborative […]
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