03 Aug 2022
From Waterbriefing Future Water has flagged up the skills gap the UK water sector is currently facing and the ongoing difficulties companies are experiencing in recruitment. As part of a new industry initiative, the industry association has conducted the first in a series of regular “check ins” with its members to reflect the challenges that […]
03 Aug 2022
Emission-cutting innovations from three global technology leaders are being accelerated through the UK water sector, thanks to new collaborative platform Spring. Technologies from Siemens, Xylem and Cobalt Water Global are being mobilised through a collaboration of 10 water companies, as part of the first Spring Accelerator challenge. Spring is dedicated to water sector transformation through innovation and […]
03 Aug 2022
From The Fifth Estate Model outlined includes combining: physical infrastructure – energy, water, waste and transport social infrastructure – health and education green infrastructure – the nature-based services we get from planting and retaining trees and enabling open space and landscaped streets.
02 Aug 2022
The first marine geophysical surveys were due to begin over the weekend (30/31 July, 2022) off the coast of Copeland, Cumbria, UK. The non-intrusive survey will provide a better understanding of the rock structure and help the search to find a suitable site for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). A news release from Nuclear Waste […]
02 Aug 2022
Scientists have found more than 30 potentially new species living at the bottom of the sea. Researchers from the UK’s Natural History Museum used a remotely operated vehicle to collect specimens from the abyssal plains of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific. Previously, creatures from this area had been studied only from photographs. The study, published in […]
02 Aug 2022
Sea levels are increasing around Britain at a far faster rate than a century ago while the country is warming slightly more than the global average, leading meteorologists said. The annual study — the State of the UK Climate 2021 — found recent decades have been “warmer, wetter and sunnier” than the 20th century. The […]
02 Aug 2022
Restoring coastal vegetation – so called ‘blue carbon’ habitats – may not be the nature-based climate solution it is claimed to be, according to a new study. In their analysis researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the OACIS initiative of the Prince Albert […]
02 Aug 2022
Work has started in the North Sea on what is expected to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm. SSE and Equinor hail first of 277 units that will support GE Haliade-X turbines at massive development off eastern England. The first of 277 turbine foundations are being installed at Dogger Bank, off the Yorkshire coast, […]
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