20 Sep 2023
Waterwise is encouraging households to join its water awareness campaign by turning off their taps for a few hours during Water Night on 19 October to support stronger action on climate change and water awareness. To take part in Water Night, households will turn off all non-essential taps between 5pm to 10pm during the evening of […]
20 Sep 2023
This week’s Climate Week in New York involves numerous businesses, governments and environmental groups, and runs alongside the UN general assembly which will, on Wednesday, include a gathering of more than 100 national governments aimed at heightening global ambition to cut emissions. The UN has warned the world is well off track to meet goals that would avert disastrous […]
20 Sep 2023
A new governance structure for the Foundation for Water Research (FWR) has been launched, as part of the efforts to refresh the mission of this vital body analysing and translating water research for different audiences. The water sector is in flux in the UK and the revitalised FWR, which recently joined the IES family, has a critical […]
18 Sep 2023
More than half of the oil accidentally spilled by offshore oil and gas operations in UK waters over the past decade has ended up in marine protected areas (MPAs) meant to protect rare and threatened habitats and species, a Greenpeace Unearthed investigation has found. The Unearthed analysis of official data has found that over the […]
18 Sep 2023
The Marine Restoration Potential (MaRePo) project is a proof-of-concept study which explores the habitat restoration potential of some key threatened and declining (subtidal) marine habitats as defined by the OSPAR convention: kelp, maerl, native oysters, horse mussels, and sea pen and burrowing megafauna communities. These habitats were chosen as they occurred within English waters and […]
18 Sep 2023
A report from conservation charity Oceania considers the top five best (sustainably fished and healthy size) and worst (overfished and low size) performing stocks. Compared to the 2020 baseline, four of the five worst performing still have critically low stock sizes and are being overfished. Three of these five worst performing stocks are in such […]
18 Sep 2023
Between 2015 and 2022 quota for Dover sole (Solea solea) in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Area 7.e roughly doubled, leading to increased fishing effort in particular in Lyme Bay. Concerns were raised by stakeholders about the effects of this increased effort on the sole population, the wider marine environment, […]
18 Sep 2023
Scots support banning fishing in 40% of Scotland’s waters – four times the amount ministers had proposed for implementing highly protected marine areas (HPMAs), a survey has found. The Scottish Government had sought to introduce HPMAs in 10% of Scottish waters, but the proposals were scrapped in the face of opposition from fishing communities and […]
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