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Sea level Rise – 4 articles – Data, science briefings & adaption & costs of coastal protection

Sea level Rise – 4 articles British Antarctic Survey – Sea level rise Science briefing: https://www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sea-level-rise_May19.pdf Sea level rise: NOAA science report cards covering the American coastline Sea level rise & Adaptation – Cities can learn lessons from Rotterdam on how it is addressing sea-level rise. Seawalls to protect US against rising oceans could cost […]

As the Ocean Cleanup puts to sea again – Will it do more harm than good?

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As the awareness of plastic pollution in the ocean gyres has increased one solution has been gathering momentum – the Ocean Cleanup and boom solution proposed by Boyan Slat. The unease about this technology and its effect on floating marine life has been developing more recently. This blog sets out five reasons why this technology […]

Hand Gathering Review – Devon & Severn IFCA

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Hand Gathering review D&S IFCA ‘This information gathering exercise that will end on 26th July 2019 is the last of a three-phase approach to collect information and forms part of a larger plan for D&S IFCA to review the management of the many different Hand Working Fishing Activities. Focus has already been applied to the use […]

Heat wave prompts mass kill of seashore mussels in California

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Guardian ‘In all her years working at Bodega Bay, the marine reserve research coordinator Jackie Sones had never seen anything like it: scores of dead mussels on the rocks, their shells gaping and scorched, their meats thoroughly cooked. A record-breaking June heatwave apparently caused the largest die-off of mussels in at least 15 years at Bodega Head, […]

Southern Water: £126 million fine for treatment failures & deliberate misreporting

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Ofwat “Southern Water has agreed to pay £126m in penalties and payments to customers following serious failures in the operation of its sewage treatment sites and for deliberately misreporting its performance. In the course of a large-scale investigation into the water company, Ofwat found that Southern Water failed to operate a number of wastewater treatments […]

Sewage Pollution – Emergency Sewer overflows & legal loophole leading raising concerns

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Sir James Bevan warns companies to improve their pollution performance Environment Agency (EA) Chief Executive Sir James Bevan has warned water companies to improve their pollution performance, saying: “If companies cannot operate without damaging the environment, they will rightly lose their social licence to operate.” Bevan, in a speech at the Water Industry Forum in Birmingham, said the […]

Climate Emergency: Six Select Committees combine to hold Citizens’ Assembly

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HoC ‘Six select committees of the House of Commons (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Environmental Audit; Housing, Communities and Local Government; Science and Technology; Transport; and Treasury) have today announced plans to hold a Citizens’ Assembly on combatting climate change and achieving the pathway to net zero carbon emissions. Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee […]

The Catchment Based Approach & GIS: New rich sources of data made available

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The CaBA Data Package V5 is now ready for download for every partnership. The Data Package is a set of over 150 data layers, which is provided to CaBA Catchment Hosts under a license negotiated centrally with the data providers. Version 5 is the latest release and is a complete refresh of all the preceding […]