08 Sep 2022
Southern Water is trialling a low carbon solution to use wetlands for wastewater treatment. Described as one of the first projects of its kind in England, the water company’s wastewater treatment works at Staplefield will make use of a neighbouring field to create special areas of wetlands. The shallow water and water tolerant plants of […]
08 Sep 2022
Defra have announced the projects that will receive funding from the Landscape Recovery Scheme. The initiative is being hailed by land managers and conservationists as the most “exciting and important” step in a generation to restore lost biodiversity. Projects include recreating water meadows in the Cotswolds, reviving eel-rich waterways in the Severn Valley, and restoring […]
08 Sep 2022
UKHSA and MHRA are expanding polio sewage surveillance to a range of areas outside of the capital. Following the findings of poliovirus in sewage samples collected from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works, which covers parts of North and East London, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) working with the Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory […]
06 Sep 2022
Greenpeace UK has placed 18 limestone boulders on the seabed in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Conservation Zone with the aim of disrupting industrial fishing. The environmental group dropped the boulders into the ocean about 200 miles (322km) off Cornwall from its ship Arctic Sunrise. It aims to create a barrier making […]
06 Sep 2022
An extract from the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM) press release: Her Majesty’s Planning Inspectorate has rejected an appeal by the under-construction Hinkley C nuclear power plant in the Bristol Channel against the requirement for a state-of-the-art acoustic fish deterrent on its cooling water intake. EDF Energy is developing a new nuclear power […]
06 Sep 2022
ECOWind is bringing together experts from science, policy and industry to understand how offshore wind affects ecosystems, and the species and habitats that make them, in order to reduce negative impacts on marine life while tackling climate change. From seven shortlisted projects, three have now been selected for funding. The projects will explore the effects […]
06 Sep 2022
Concerned members of the public have joined forces with environmental activists to protest the over the mass deaths of marine life and pollution on the Teesside coast. Tens of thousands of the crustaceans first washed up on shores from Seaton Carew down to Whitby in October 2021. Defra previously said it had “completed […]
06 Sep 2022
A study, published in Nature Climate Change, outlines a new index – the Climate Risk Index for Biodiversity (CRIB) – that assesses the climate risk for nearly 25,000 marine species and their ecosystems. The findings show that, under very high emissions, almost 90% of these species are put at high or critical risk, with […]
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