11 Feb 2025
Norway is the largest producer of farmed salmon in the world, exporting an estimated 1.2 million tonnes annually. However, wild salmon populations have more than halved, dropping from over 1 million in 1980 to around 500,000 today. While the climate crisis presents a key threat to wild salmon by reducing habitat availability and lowering population […]
11 Feb 2025
Despite supply chain challenges and unfavourable economic headwinds, an annual update from RenewableUK confirms global operational offshore wind capacity has now topped 80GW, up 15% from last year. More than 60% of this growth was from just two markets: China (adding 6.9 GW) and the Netherlands (adding 1.7 GW). China is still the […]
11 Feb 2025
The newly-published EU Coastline Macro Litter Trend report found that the amount of marine macro litter (items bigger than 2.5 cm) in the EU coastline has dropped by 29 % between the baseline period (2015-2016) and the assessment period (2020-2021). While the largest reduction in terms of percentages is seen at the Baltic Sea (45%), […]
11 Feb 2025
A new European campaign supported by BLOOM, Blue Marine Foundation, Empesca’t, Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana, Only One, Seas At Risk and Tara Ocean Foundation, in collaboration with fishers, is calling on European leaders to ban destructive fishing such as bottom trawling in marine protected areas (MPAs). In letters sent to French president, Emmanuel […]
11 Feb 2025
The Future Economic Potential of Tidal Stream and Wave Energy in Scotland report reveals the size of the potential economic prize for Scotland if the correct steps are taken to ensure it remains the world-leading destination for developing marine energy. The report – published by the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and commissioned by […]
06 Feb 2025
The Environment has published new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion. This includes future scenarios accounting for climate change. Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff It includes new National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA) ‘Risk of flooding from rivers and sea’ and ‘Risk of flooding from surface water’ data, as well as new National Coastal […]
06 Feb 2025
The consumer body for water customers says urgent action is needed to protect cash-strapped households from soaring water bills. The Consumer Council for Water (CCW) has warned many of the most financially vulnerable households will not be able to cope with a £123 (+26%) increase to the average household water and sewerage bill in England […]
06 Feb 2025
The government has announced the members of the new advisory group to the independent water commission, chaired by Sir Jon Cunliffe. Sir Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer), Richard Benwell (CEO, Wildlife & Countryside Link), Professor Isabelle Durance (Professor of Integrated Water Sciences at Cardiff University) and Peter Harrison (former CEO, Schroders) are among the nine members advising […]
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