13 Apr 2021
Ecosystem accounting UN Member States have agreed to a new statistical framework to better account for biodiversity and ecosystems in national economic planning and policy decision-making. The new system of environmental economic accounting, developed by the United Nations with support from the European Commission, goes beyond GDP to ensure that forests, wetlands and other ecosystems are […]
13 Apr 2021
The Guardian ‘The prime minister’s green rhetoric has been accompanied by a series of actions that have left many observers aghast, and that appear contrary to leading an international push to net zero. These include: The green light for a Cumbrian coalmine, which provoked a months-long rowthat ended with the promise of a public inquiry New licences […]
13 Apr 2021
Defra in pre-tender engagement for £120m national property flood resilience framework The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a pre-tender engagement exercise on behalf of the Environment Agency for a new framework for the provision of services and works relating to property flood resilience. Following the introduction of the Property Flood Resilience […]
13 Apr 2021
Angling Trust ‘A new report, Salmonid and fisheries statistics for England and Wales 2019, by the Environment Agency highlights the growing concern on the status of salmon populations in our rivers. In England & Wales, no rivers were categorised as being ‘not at risk’, with all 22 principal salmon rivers in Wales categorised at ‘at risk’ […]
13 Apr 2021
Latest release from the Office of National Statistics presents information on the value of Britain’s marine ecosystems calculated: as a cultural and recreational asset; in the provision of natural resources; and as a regulator of environmental factors such as carbon emissions and water flows to prevent flooding. The overall economic value of the UK’s coastal […]
13 Apr 2021
Conservation measures for non-licensable activities including anchoring and mooring in the Studland Bay Marine Conservation Zone were the subject of a call for evidence from the Marine Management Organisation earlier this year Click here Following a consultation meeting chaired by the Dorset Coast Forum the RYA has published a position statement on the issue. This […]
13 Apr 2021
Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a paper published from the University of California, is the most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification. The study reports on how seagrass meadows along the California coast can alleviate low pH, or more acidic conditions for extended periods of […]
13 Apr 2021
One way to remove microplastics from water is to encourage them to clump together into compounds that can be filtered – or, in the context of the 20-year-old Irish inventor Fionn Ferreira’s work, magnetized – out. Ferreira created a homemade ferrofluid – a magnetic mixture of oil and powdered rust – and successfully used it […]
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