11 Aug 2020

A team of four NRW marine scientists work at the Skomer MCZ. They are responsible for the management of the site and completing an extensive marine monitoring programme which has built on the marine biological surveys started in the 1980s. There is a 5-knot speed limit within 100m of the shore to reduce disturbance to […]

11 Aug 2020

Recent marine and coastal surveys reports published by Natural England: Plymouth Sound and Estuaries SAC: subtidal reef communities survey 2017/18 NECR295 2020/06/11 Torbay MCZ Seagrass Base Monitoring: 2019  NECR293 2020/06/11 Seagrass condition monitoring in Plymouth Sound and Estuaries SAC 2018 NECR294 2020/06/11 MSFD Sponge & Anthozoan Indicator Trial Lyme Bay 2017 & 2018    NECR296 2020/06/11 […]

11 Aug 2020

Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf in the Arctic has collapsed, shrinking by about 80 square kilometres, or 40 percent of its area, over just two days at the end of July, according to scientists at the Canadian Ice Service. The breakup of the ice was driven by record-setting temperatures in the region, which have measured […]

06 Aug 2020

In praise of red tape: getting regulation right Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, gives a speech at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry on environmental regulation. This is a Must Read detailed speech by Sir James Bevan, CEO of the Environment Agency – on the Post-Brexit regulatory regime   Click here […]

06 Aug 2020

Increasing influence of climate change on UK climate Author: Grahame Madge The sixth report in the State of the UK Climate series confirms that 2019 was the 12th warmest year in a series from 1884. The latest report covering the climate of the UK – published today [Friday 31 July ]- reveals that the most recent […]

06 Aug 2020

‘Angling Trust calls for well-resourced enforcement and monitoring in response to Defra’s consultation on the Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) 05 August 2020 For over forty years, the EU Commons Agricultural Policy (CAP) has directed how land is farmed and managed in the UK. The departure from the EU and CAP gives us the opportunity […]

06 Aug 2020

CCC Flood Review Report – Sayers https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Future-Flooding-Main-Report-Sayers-1.pdf Third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) Future flood risk Main Report Sayers, P.B, Horritt, M.S, Carr, S, Kay, A, Mauz, J, Lamb, R and Penning-Rowsell, E Summary ‘Background Under the Climate Change Act 2008 the UK Government is required to publish a Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) […]