02 Dec 2018
Guardian ‘Windy weather carries Britain to renewable energy record Windfarms supplied third of UK’s electricity this week, with output hitting 14.9GW high Storm Diana brought travel chaos to road, rail and airports, but the clouds did have a silver lining: the strong winds helped set a renewable energy record. Windfarms supplied about a third of […]
02 Dec 2018
Chemical cocktail suppresses periwinkles’ ability to avoid crabs and disrupts food chain Toxins leaching from microplastics leave shellfish at the mercy of predators, research has found. The chemicals completely suppress the ability of the periwinkles to detect and avoid the crabs that eat them. Microplastics plague the world’s rivers and oceans and absorb poisonous chemicals from the […]
02 Dec 2018
The 2017 SWME Annual Report the fourth in this series has just been completed and it can be downloaded here. The report is bigger than ever (84 pages) and has a fantastic range of observations and records ranging from new species of sea slug and shark, the continued rise of tuna and crawfish and continued […]
01 Dec 2018
Marine Social Science Research and Practice in the UK As management of our global seas and coastlines becomes ever more complex, there is a growing call for improved integration of social sciences within marine and coastal decision making. Recent high-profile campaigns and media coverage have triggered an unprecedented out-pouring of public awareness and concern for […]
28 Nov 2018
Three articles & reports Michael Gove launches new Met office Projections Gove’s speech – a detailed statement US Climate change report highlights massive costs not least to inland and coastal flooding Committee on Climate Change Animation 1. The Environment Secretary, Michael Gove at the Science Museum in London, in which he launched new data giving the […]
28 Nov 2018
EA ‘Environment Agency Chair, Emma Howard Boyd is calling on businesses and communities to prepare as latest UK climate change projections are published. Writing in the Environment Agency’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation report, the Chair of the Environment Agency says worryingly few FTSE boards are disclosing the strategic risks to their shareholders brought by the […]
28 Nov 2018
Defra ‘The Environment Agency published its latest list of Enforcement Undertakings accepted by EA under which 15 companies and individuals that polluted rivers and streams or made other environmental breaches will pay more than £2.2 million to environmental charities and local projects. The new list included the largest Enforcement Undertaking ever accepted by EA, £975,000 from […]
28 Nov 2018
No ‘flushable’ wet wipes tested so far pass water industry tests By Emma Campbell BBC Radio 4, Costing the Earth 13 November 2018 All wet wipes sold as “flushable” in the UK have so far failed the water industry’s disintegration tests, the BBC has found. Water companies say wet wipes don’t break down and are […]
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