12 Oct 2021
The world’s biodiversity has fallen below the ‘safe limit’, researchers suggest, as habitat destruction and agriculture take their toll on nature. Ahead of the 2021 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), Click here the Natural History Museum has launched the Biodiversity Trends Explorer, an online tool that will allow everyone, from members of the public to […]
12 Oct 2021
The latest inshore fisheries flare up between the UK and the EU over the issuing/or not of fishing licenses. Almost 1,700 EU vessels licences have now been licensed to fish in UK waters, 117 of these in the 6-12 nautical mile zone. However, of the 47 applications made for vessels under 12m in length to […]
12 Oct 2021
The UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)on Microplastics works to raise awareness of the effects of microplastics on the environment discussing issues related to microplastics and steps needed to tackle the issue and prevent harmful impacts on the environment, riverine and marine life and human health. In this first report, the Group has been focussing […]
12 Oct 2021
Scientists, climate and nature professionals have been appointed to a new group of international experts, tasked with advising the Scottish Government on environmental issues. Formed as a commitment for the first 100 days of government, the First Minister’s Environmental Council will focus on Scotland’s ambitious trajectory, drawing on global best practice to keep Scotland at […]
12 Oct 2021
Over the past five years there has been increasing concern around the spread of wild Pacific oysters in Marine Protected Areas. In Devon and Cornwall, the abundance of Pacific oyster Magallana gigas (formerly Crassostrea gigas) within intertidal Marine Protected Areas has led to some sites being reported as being in unfavourable condition. Natural England, in […]
05 Oct 2021
From Water UK Water industry calls for a wave of bathing rivers as part of a new national plan to improve the health of English rivers Water companies want government, agriculture, and other sectors to come together and help create a series of bathing rivers across the country Research shows the many sources of pollution […]
05 Oct 2021
From Ofwat In 2021, water companies, in partnership with others, have been invited to enter two types of competition with their innovations: A £2 million Innovation in Water Challenge (IWC) with the opportunity to receive funding of up to £250,000 and a £40 million Water Breakthrough Challenge (Breakthrough 1) with the opportunity to receive funding […]
05 Oct 2021
Blog by Dr Peter Matthews, past president of CIWEM and former Chair of Natural Resources Wales COP26 is fast approaching, bringing with it – we hope – all the attention and urgency the climate crisis requires. We see it in the news, we read it in IPCC reports – but it’s not (exclusively) through academic […]
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