09 Nov 2022
From Water UK The Discover Water website has been updated with the latest water industry performance data published by water companies for the year 2021/22. Discover Water allows the public to easily examine measures such as the quality of drinking water or customer satisfaction levels, using data compiled from across the whole of the water industry. This […]
09 Nov 2022
New Civil Engineer The highways industry is facing a critical knowledge gap regarding the installation and maintenance of drainage infrastructure according to a leading water management firm. ACO Water Management has surveyed 100 infrastructure and highways engineers and compiled the responses in its new report Highways Drainage: The Route to Surface Water Management, which is also […]
09 Nov 2022
Kotchakorn Voraakhom: The architect helping sinking cities fight flooding From CNN When floods devastated Bangkok more than a decade ago, Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom became determined to help her sinking hometown fight this deadly climate threat. The floods “changed my life,” said Voraakhom, who studied at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. “(It was) […]
08 Nov 2022
The World Coastal Forum was officially launched at the COP14 Ramsar meeting in Geneva today (8th November, 2022). An International Advisory Meeting on the World Coastal Forum held on Jan 10, 2022 in Yancheng City, China with global online participation of government agencies, conventions, international NGOs and experts, agreed to establish a “World Coastal Forum (WCF)”. […]
08 Nov 2022
The mysterious Greenland shark – thought to have the longest lifespan of any vertebrate – has been granted new, historic protections by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). The US and Canada, with support from the UK and the EU, proposed and secured a science-based ban on retaining the species from international waters. […]
08 Nov 2022
The Marine Conservation Society has released its first Wildlife Sightings report, publishing last year’s findings from its long-running citizen science project. The project asks the public to report jellyfish and marine turtle sightings in and around the UK and Ireland’s shores. The charity collects and analyses reports of these species to identify […]
08 Nov 2022
As the world meets to agree its latest plans to combat climate change at the UN Climate Change COP27, and others simultaneously meet in the often overlooked COP14 Ramsar discussions, WWT’s new Wetlands For Carbon Storage Route Map calls for the creation of at least 22,000 hectares of coastal saltmarsh by 2050 to help the UK government […]
08 Nov 2022
A new dataset of intentional disabling of Automatic Identification System devices by fishing vessels provides insights into illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activity Data from the shipboard Automatic Identification System (AIS), which was created as a collision avoidance tool, can provide information about global fishing activity, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Fishing vessels may […]
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