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02 Feb 2021

MarineNews

There is a legal obligation to compensate for the impacts of maintaining coastal flood management infrastructure, or management activities that could lead to coastal squeeze. Coastal practitioners define coastal squeeze to the best of their ability, but a number of studies have highlighted inconsistencies in the definition used for ‘coastal squeeze’ and demonstrated problems in […]

02 Feb 2021

MarineNews

  SEA-CHANGERS LAUNCHES COASTAL FOUNTAIN FUND 2021   The Sea-Changers Coastal Fountain Fund 2021 will support groups and organisations around the UK who wish to install water bottle refill stations on beaches or other coastal locations. The programme aims to tackle the increasing problem of plastic bottles left behind along the coasts as marine litter, […]

28 Jan 2021

MarineNews

Advertising in The Marine Biologist magazine   ADVERTISING SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN THE APRIL 2021 EDITION  Editorial focus UK-Russia collaboration on Arctic research Lead sampling during MOSAiC expedition Leg 3. Image© Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Torsten Sachs (CC-BY 4.0).   The Arctic region is warming and changing faster than anywhere else on Earth, with the first ice-free […]

26 Jan 2021

NewsWater

President Biden has signed an order that means the US will return to the global fight against climate change. He is also committed to 100% clean electricity by 2035. The new administration will also protect “biodiversity, slowing extinction rates and helping leverage natural climate solutions by conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030”. […]

26 Jan 2021

NewsWater

With river levels remaining high in the wake of Storm Christoph and subsequent snowfall, it has emerged that  swathes of England’s vital flood defences are ‘almost useless’. An investigation by Unearthed found that thousands of England’s vital flood defences were in such a state of ruin last year they would fail to protect communities from extreme […]

26 Jan 2021

NewsWater

The Environment Agency has published a summary of responses to the recent Challenges and Choices consultation, into the “challenges our waters face and the choices we all need to make to help tackle those challenges”. The Agency received a total of 606 responses from a range of groups and individuals, including: the water industry local […]

26 Jan 2021

NewsWater

From Defra A joint industry-government group established last year to tackle river pollution has today (22 January) agreed a new objective to prevent damage from storm overflows. The Storm Overflows Taskforce – made up of Defra, the Environment Agency, Ofwat, Consumer Council for Water, Blueprint for Water and Water UK – has agreed to set […]

26 Jan 2021

NewsWater

From HR Wallingford Ahead of an upcoming ministerial direction in relation to reservoir safety, HR Wallingford is advising Bristol Water on updating its reservoir emergency flood (on-site) plans. The imminent amendment to the implementation of the Reservoir Act 1975 will make it a legal obligation for reservoir owners to have a written detailed plan for […]