In 1998 Daniel Pauly and co-workers published a paper in Science describing the concept of fishing down the food chain using FAO landings data. Recent and forthcoming publication of papers using ICES landings data demonstrate that fishing down the food chain in UK waters is now a reality and that its impacts are wide ranging […]
Concerns are being raised about this bill not least in relation to the ‘transfer of public land to the Government Homes and Communities Agency will relatively few strings. This looks like re-igniting the forest sell-off campaign issue. Planning Portal ‘The new legislation which changes the management of major roads, streamlines the planning process for major […]
REA July 8th ‘The Crown Estate has boosted the UK wave and tidal sector today by confirming leasing agreements for new wave and tidal stream energy sites, as well as plans for a future leasing round for tidal range projects. The leasing agreements announced today [1] will help bring forward five new wave and […]
CMS News has gets it input from a wide range of eNews sources and we regularly promote these. For anyone working in the UK Flooding sector UK Flood News has become a mine of valuable information. The stories covered below illustrate the breadth of their coverage. Counting The £1Bn Plus Cost Of The Winter Floods […]
UK Water Research and Innovation Group Growing demand for water and the management of weather extremes are just a few of the complex challenges faced by cities. A holistic approach to water and cities is needed that integrates with other critical city issues, such as, transport, economy and health. A range of partners will need […]
The false balance issue has been long recognized in the climate change debate – now some action by the BBC has been taken to redress this. LSE Press release 26 June, 2014 ‘Responding to the decision by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit to uphold a complaint about an interview with Lord Lawson on climate […]
In effect this a model for helping deliver sustainability for a wide variety of project – integrated solutions, delivering multiple benefits with finances from a variety of sources. This diagram prepared by Peter Bide has enormous range of applications to project funding meeting the aspirations of stakeholders. In effect it shows a familiar situation – […]
Met Office: Extreme summer rainfall may become more frequent in the UK due to climate change, according to new research led by the Met Office in collaboration with Newcastle University. The new study, from the joint Met Office and NERC funded CONVEX project, uses a state-of-the-art climate model providing the first evidence that hourly summer […]