11 Dec 2019
Accelerating Greenland ice melt set to see 100 million people flooded each year A team of international scientists is warning that Greenland is losing ice faster than in the 1990s – the rate of ice loss has risen from 33 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 254 billion tonnes per year in the last […]
11 Dec 2019
The Moray Firth Salmon Tracking Project Update ‘It is with great excitement we announce an important update for the Moray Firth Tracking Project. We are delighted to share the initial findings with you in this short video. We appreciate that you are eager to hear more news, but the last receiver was only retrieved in […]
07 Dec 2019
A landmark Greenpeace report today highlights our reliance on the ocean as Earth’s largest carbon sink. It warns that our changing climate, biodiversity loss and habitat destruction are endangering the processes which underpin the ocean’s ability to sequester and store carbon. This will have ‘far-reaching implications for biodiversity and humankind’. The report, In Hot Water: The […]
07 Dec 2019
The European Commission said today that it will not take emergency measures this winter to tackle the tragic death of dolphins caught in fishing nets. Last winter, around 1200 cetaceans – almost all identified as common dolphins – washed ashore along the French Atlantic coast. 85 percent of these dolphins died after being caught up in […]
07 Dec 2019
Open Seas ‘We have published a ‘Discard Dossier’ in collaboration with Our Fish providing evidence that illegal discarding continues in the Scottish prawn (scampi) fishery and is threatening the recovery of our already collapsed fish stocks. Here’s the executive summary: In 2013 the ‘discard ban’ or Landing Obligation was agreed to reduce and record the amount of […]
07 Dec 2019
As well as providing renewable energy, wave farms can help protect coasts against erosion by reducing the force of waves. However, it remains unknown whether they can provide this complementary service under future climate change when sea levels will be higher. A new study, based upon computer simulations, concludes that a wave farm off the […]
07 Dec 2019
The future of UK blue shark angling looks a little more secure after ICCAT (the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, which also manages shark species) agreed science-based catch limits for both southern and northern blue shark stocks for the first time. The limits cap the amount of blue sharks that can be […]
06 Dec 2019
CEH: Submitted by Katie Muchan on Fri, 22/11/2019 – 15:04 An unsettled and wet period since late September followed by persistent heavy rainfall in late October and early November has caused severe flooding across northern and central England. Our hydrologists have provided the following background information, based on provisional data provided by the Environment Agency and the Met Office, […]
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