01 Feb 2022
Bathing water classifications for 2021 show that 99% of bathing waters in England have passed water quality standards following testing by the Environment Agency at over 400 designated sites. Of these, 94.7% of beaches and inland waters gained an ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ rating while 4.3% achieved the minimum ‘Sufficient’ rating. This compares with 98.3% passing […]
01 Feb 2022
Lord Goldsmith announces UK will support the creation of the world’s biggest transboundary marine protected area. The UK will help to protect some of the world’s most important and biodiverse marine environments in the Eastern Pacific, including key migratory routes for sea turtles, whales, sharks, and rays. At COP26 in Glasgow, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, […]
01 Feb 2022
The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is launching a new challenge in collaboration with Geovation – a start-up accelerator programme and initiative of Ordnance Survey (OS), the national mapping agency for Great Britain – to find a sustainable solution to diffuse coastal pollution. ‘Diffuse’ pollution is pollution from multiple and often unidentified sources which causes significant […]
01 Feb 2022
Bluefin tuna have been tagged with state-of-the-art acoustic tracking tags for the first time in UK waters. The huge fish, which in UK waters can be up to 2.5 m long, are commercially valuable and biologically fascinating. The 7cm long tags send individually coded sound (acoustic) messages to listening stations moored on the seabed, allowing […]
01 Feb 2022
Underwater videos could help explain why thousands of starfish are stranded on Welsh beaches Storms this winter have left thousands of starfish lying stranded along the Welsh coast. Many starfish are still alive when they get washed ashore but many will die as they cannot survive being exposed in the air for too long. A recent discovery […]
25 Jan 2022
How to regulate better after Brexit: Think differently, speak softly and carry a bigger stick Environment Agency Chief Executive Sir James Bevan’s speech at a Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum conference on future environmental standards. From the Guardian Staff blow whistle on Environment Agency that ‘no longer deters polluters’ Exclusive: Officers say cuts and […]
25 Jan 2022
From Defra The Water Services Division at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has published a research report which concludes that the overall picture generated by the research is that it is “both rare and challenging” to achieve a strategic approach to surface water management through the planning system. Introducing the research report, DEFRA said […]
25 Jan 2022
Ofwat has published a summary document setting out the key themes which have emerged from the Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) assessment of submissions for strategic regional water resource solutions at standard gate one. The assessment process is overseen by RAPID, with input from the partner regulators – Ofwat, the Environment Agency and the […]
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