Colin Speedie, WiSe – MMO ‘ Watching marine wildlife safely With the next heat wave reported to arrive, it is a perfect opportunity to get out and enjoy some of the amazing marine wildlife around the English coast. But our enjoyment can quickly lead to the distress of the animals we are there to see. WiSe scheme’s […]
susdrain Plans unveiled for UK’s largest sustainable urban drainage network An ambitious project cut the amount of clean rainwater contaminated in sewers is set to be launched this summer on the site of one London’s biggest affordable housing schemes. Rainwater landing on an area the size of 20 football pitches will be channelled back into […]
The need to face up to climate change denial will remain a major challenge. The now famous ‘I brought the graph’ exchange between Brian Cox and Malcolm Roberts in Australia comes at a time when ‘Clexit’ is being well funded. Clexit is the aim of deniers not to ratify Paris. There is Rejection of experts […]
Chief Executive’s Blog – A place that is great for living in and sits responsibly within our world Terry Fuller CEO, CIWEM on a meeting with Defra ‘Last week I said that I would provide an update on some of our policy and engagement activities. As you will appreciate there is much to do in […]
This is another useful step, but the NFU have just launched ‘NFU launches biggest farming conversation for a generation, I wonder will the environmental groups be able to muster a similar scale of initiative? Phil Bremner, Containment News ‘Following on from my previous two Editor’s Comments, I am delighted in joining Surfers Against Sewage to […]
The scale of the problem of the problem caused by flushing ‘unflushables’ seems to be growing. MCS through their citizen science monitoring of beaches have highlighted the number of wet wipes that make it that far but the real problem lies with the blockages these and other items are creating. The question arises of whether […]
Two case studies with rather different headlines this week. The community ownership aspect of this is an interesting development. Community-owned 50kW Archimedes screw generates electricity from River Esk wwtonline: ‘A community-owned 50kW Archimedes screw hydroelectric turbine has been installed on the River Esk at Ruswarp, near Whitby, North Yorkshire to generate electricity for local residents.The River […]
Guardian River Dee’s pearl mussels get a helping hand – or gill They were hunted to near-extinction. Now a £3.5m project aims to let the Scottish molluscs flourish again. The sun shines on clear river water running through a valley in the Cairngorms, bringing the stones on the river bed into colourful focus. Here and […]