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02 Sep 2020

NewsWater

Guardian article; Only one in 10 utility firms prioritise renewable electricity – global study Nature Paper: Only one in 10 utility firms prioritise renewable electricity The penetration of low-carbon technologies in power generation has challenged fossil-fuel-focused electric utilities. While the extant, predominantly qualitative, literature highlights diversification into renewables among possible adaptation strategies, comprehensive quantitative understanding […]

02 Sep 2020

NewsWater

Mine remediation Mine waste project starts £6m https://www.gov.uk/government/news/work-starts-on-6m-river-clean-up-project & Innovation for use of Minewater to heat cities. The Environment Agency and Coal Authority has started work on Nent Haggs Mine Water Treatment Scheme to address a harmful legacy of the industrial revolution. The River Nent is the second most metal polluted river in England with […]

02 Sep 2020

NewsWater

Protecting Our Local Rivers from Pollution by Industrial Farming The pollution of the Wye this summer by farms have been widely reported on by national and local media. Now concerned residents of the Golden Valley in Herefordshire are crowdfunding to take on Herefordshire County Council On 3 June 2020, Herefordshire County Council gave its approval to a planning application […]

01 Sep 2020

MarineNews

Latest consultation from Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government on the updated marine monitoring programmes for the state of the UK’s seas for each of the UK Marine Strategy descriptors. The consultation document sets out the monitoring programmes they propose to use to measure progress towards Good Environmental Status […]

01 Sep 2020

MarineNews

For the purposes of the day, BLUE defined rewilding the sea as any effort to improve the health of the ocean by actively restoring habitats and species, or by leaving it alone to recover. One of the discussion points of the conference was that rewilding in the oceans might involve “re-framing ambitions” with rewilding projects […]

01 Sep 2020

MarineNews

The worldwide effort to combat critical levels of biodiversity loss will fail without far greater involvement from local communities, according to an international declaration. The “Edinburgh declaration”, published on Monday, urges leaders to work more closely with sub-national governments, indigenous peoples, national parks, local councils and wider society in meeting 20 biodiversity goals set out […]

01 Sep 2020

MarineNews

Restoration potential maps have been developed to provide a national ‘high level’ indication of where intertidal and subtidal seagrass, native oysters and saltmarsh could potentially be restored based on some key physical attributes. The maps are accessible on the Coastal Data Explorer portal hosted by the Rivers Trust that is being developed as part of […]

01 Sep 2020

MarineNews

During expeditions to oil and gas reservoirs in the central North Sea in 2012 and 2013, scientists of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) discovered that methane bubbles emerged from the seabed around abandoned wells. The gas originates from shallow gas pockets, which lie less than 1000 meters deep below the seafloor […]