12 Nov 2024
Iceland’s last active whaling company, Hvalur hf., recently applied for an indefinite whale hunting licence, causing disagreement amongst the ministers in Iceland’s caretaker government over whether or not they will approve the application. While the country granted a one-year licence to Hvalur to kill more than 100 fin whales earlier this year for this hunting […]
12 Nov 2024
Scotland adopted its first National Marine Plan in 2015, with the aim of helping to manage the use of Scotland’s seas in a sustainable way. In 2022 work began to create an updated national marine plan, to better reflect how the sea is currently being used, and to plan for its continued and sustainable future […]
12 Nov 2024
One of the major challenges facing the offshore renewable energy industry is how to deliver the speed and extent of the dramatic increase in offshore wind deployment needed to meet the UK’s Net Zero targets. A new report by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult lays out a new approach to environmental monitoring and consenting […]
12 Nov 2024
The Crown Estate has pledged to give £150,000 to support the Severn Estuary Commission’s work to explore the potential for sustainable energy from the Severn Estuary. The Severn Estuary has the highest tidal range in Europe and has been estimated to have the potential provide up to 7% of the UK’s total energy needs, but […]
12 Nov 2024
Clockwise from top left: a jellyfish-like hydrozoan (Aglantha digitale); a Pacific sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia bachei); a new ctenophore species; a swimming crinoid known as a sea lily; the Beroe ovata ctenophore, with another comb jelly (Biolinopsis) in its stomach; and a Limacina helicina, a swimming snail known as a sea devil. Photograph: Leonid Moroz/University of […]
06 Nov 2024
There was limited progress at the COP16 Convention on Biological Diversity continues in Colombia, which aimed to agree on how to halt nature decline by 2030. According to the BBC, scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the summit, with experts saying the scale of political ambition has […]
06 Nov 2024
Last week’s Budget was designed to “fix the foundations of our economy”, but views on how it will help fix the environment are mixed. Defra’s overall funding will rise slightly in real terms, although its day-to-day budget will see a small decrease, with officials warning that farming and flood defence budgets face £600 million in […]
06 Nov 2024
A report by sustainability think tank the Institute for European Environmental Policy UK (IEEP UK) looks at the implications of diverging wastewater policy between the UK and the EU. Photo credit: Joseph Russo EU law concerning collection and treatment of wastewater (sewage) has been dominated by the 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. […]
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