13 Apr 2021
Latest release from the Office of National Statistics presents information on the value of Britain’s marine ecosystems calculated: as a cultural and recreational asset; in the provision of natural resources; and as a regulator of environmental factors such as carbon emissions and water flows to prevent flooding. The overall economic value of the UK’s coastal […]
13 Apr 2021
Conservation measures for non-licensable activities including anchoring and mooring in the Studland Bay Marine Conservation Zone were the subject of a call for evidence from the Marine Management Organisation earlier this year Click here Following a consultation meeting chaired by the Dorset Coast Forum the RYA has published a position statement on the issue. This […]
13 Apr 2021
Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a paper published from the University of California, is the most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification. The study reports on how seagrass meadows along the California coast can alleviate low pH, or more acidic conditions for extended periods of […]
13 Apr 2021
One way to remove microplastics from water is to encourage them to clump together into compounds that can be filtered – or, in the context of the 20-year-old Irish inventor Fionn Ferreira’s work, magnetized – out. Ferreira created a homemade ferrofluid – a magnetic mixture of oil and powdered rust – and successfully used it […]
13 Apr 2021
Crowds gathering to watch the ‘Wally’ the walrus as well as people on paddleboards, canoes and jet skis trying to get a close-up of view of him is certainly not following the advice of either the old or updated Countryside Code (launched last week) to “give wild animals plenty of space”. Seals are a much […]
13 Apr 2021
SPECIAL ISSUE FREELY AVAILABLE NOW The changing Arctic Ocean and new research in the UK and Russia The Arctic Ocean is the fastest warming region on Earth. In the new Special Issue of The Marine Biologist magazine we focus on concerted international scientific efforts to better understand the changing Arctic Ocean. From phytoplankton to polar bears […]
06 Apr 2021
EA ‘The Environment Agency has published the Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data for 2020, which tracks the operation of storm overflows. This data has always been available by information request, but following the commitment made by the Storm Overflows Taskforce to increase the transparency and accessibility of this data, it’s now available on GOV.UK. This year […]
06 Apr 2021
The Rivers Trusts ‘Data released today by the Environment Agency (EA) shows that storm overflows (SOs) discharged untreated sewage and storm water more than 400,000 times, and for more than 3 million hours during 2020 in England. This is a shocking volume of untreated contaminated wastewater reaching our rivers and shows that our current approach […]
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