This series of Tweets and links from John Curtin and later Defra highlights the challenges of this weather system that got stuck over the UK. Like 2007 flooding this event this prolonged period of rain will go down as yet another event which shook up our perceptions of flood risk and how we respond. The […]
City to Sea – What is National Refill Day? On Wednesday 19th June 2019 we’ll be asking the nation if they’ve #GotTheBottle to prevent plastic pollution. Brought to you by City to Sea as part of the award-winning Refill Campaign, National Refill Day is an awareness campaign to get the UK public to stop bottling it when it comes to our […]
Proposed designation changes to the main river map, notices from the Environment Agency, how to comment or appeal, and final decision notices. Environment Agency 7th June 2019 see all updates Contents Factual changes (notices to be live for 30 days) Decision notices (notices to be live for 6 weeks) Statutory guidance to the Environment Agency […]
The Grantham Institute, Imperial College. As experts on climate change, many people ask us, what can I do personally about it? The 9 things people can do is our advice We spoke to our team of scientists at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London and have created a digital feature […]
1. Dealers looking to illegally export European eels from the UK have been exposed by BBC Countryfile. Posing as a UK fisherman who had legally caught the eels on the River Severn in Gloucestershire, presenter Joe Crowley was approached by Chinese and Russian buyers and a UK exporter. They were prepared to pay up to […]
Future of seaside towns: government response to the Select Committee report The government’s response to the report by the House of Lords Select Committee on the future of seaside towns. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government ‘This is the government response to the House of Lords Select Committee report on regenerating seaside towns and communities, […]
The Scarborough News ‘Scarborough Council is set to give its backing to a plan to establish England’s first commercial seaweed hatchery in the waters off the town’s coast. The council’s cabinet is being asked to act as an accountable body for a £472,150 grant from the Coastal Communities Fund (CCF) to SeaGrown Limited. The Scarborough-based company […]
The World Ocean Council, the unique global Blue Economy Business Organization, brings together the ocean business and investment community to work on Corporate Ocean Responsibility. The annual WOC Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) convenes these ocean industry stakeholders around the key challenges of ocean sustainable development and sets the stage for the coming year’s efforts on […]