12 Jul 2022
The Marine Institute and the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) at NUI Galway, are conducting a survey of marine and marine-related businesses as part of the regular reporting on Ireland’s Ocean Economy. Although the CSO and other State organisations provide some data on marine related economic activity, there is a need to supplement this data […]
12 Jul 2022
The UK government has announced the opening of a consultation on five potential Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) in England. As we covered on 21 June 2022, the Guardian leaked the five sites in advance of Defra’s announcement. Defra said in its press release: ‘HPMAs will have the highest levels of protection in our seas. […]
12 Jul 2022
Thursday 14th July will mark the start of a two month-long Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the country’s first Marine Protected Area at Lundy. The Lundy Marine Festival is being organised and run by Robert Irving, a marine biological consultant who has been involved with Lundy and the management of its MPA for 40 […]
12 Jul 2022
Results published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, have found that floating cities, wildfires, overfishing and lithium extraction for electric cars are some of the issues that have made a shortlist of concerns from leading marine experts on impacts facing the global ocean in the next ten years. The “horizon scanning”, conducted by an international team of scientists and policymakers, […]
12 Jul 2022
Following the biggest ever UK renewables auction, the government said on Thursday the contract price for windfarms was nearly 6% lower than the previous auction, despite the rising cost of materials to build windfarms. A string of new contracts should add about 7 gigawatts of clean power capacity to Britain’s turbine fleet by 2026. The […]
07 Jul 2022
Ofwat has set out its draft methodology for the upcoming Price Review (PR24) with a focus on securing better outcomes for customers and the environment. PR24, which will cover the period 2025-2030, will drive water companies to step up to deliver in the face of urgent challenges on the environment and climate change. The review will push […]
07 Jul 2022
Creating wildlife-rich wetlands like ponds, streams, wetland parks and rain gardens in deprived urban communities could help level up inequalities in wellbeing across the UK, according to a new report from the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust (WWT). Currently, people in the poorest urban and ethnic communities are twice as likely as those in more affluent groups to […]
07 Jul 2022
An extract from an Environment Agency blog: June and July 2007. The most severe and widespread inland flooding we have seen since 1947 with more than 55,000 properties flooded, mainly across Yorkshire, the Midlands, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Many more lost essential services such as water, electricity and telecommunications. The Ulley reservoir dam […]
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