Business Green: Norwegian firm Statoil set to start construction of ‘world’s largest’ floating wind farm in the coming months after securing sea bed lease. Construction work is set to begin later this year on what will be the world’s largest floating wind farm, after the project was granted a seabed lease by the Crown Estate […]
SeafoodSource.com: University of Washington professor and global fisheries expert Ray Hilborn, who has been outspoken in countering the widely-held belief that the world’s fish stocks are declining, has been accused by Greenpeace of a lack of transparency in disclosing his funding sources. Greenpeace’s attack on Hilborn’s credibility comes after the organization received the details of the […]
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We seem to have had a run of these major complex storm – flood events. Some things we know: They seem to be becoming commoner: 2012, 2013-14 in the SW & Somerset, 2015-16 in Cumbria and the north They are very expensive to deal with – no change out of a billion … The location […]
Whatever the eventual outcome of their activities it has been encouraging to see the Water professions collaborating to try and make progress on SuDS in the Housing and Planning Bill. Given the scale and costs of major storm and flood events and well as the ‘routine’ nature of flash flooding Government should be doing much […]
‘The Angling Trust has welcomed the commitment from the Environment Agency (EA) to deliver an ambitious 5-Point Approach to halt the dramatic decline of salmon stocks in England. Despite funding cuts from government, the Agency has committed additional funding to support this extensive programme of work over an 18-month period. The approach aims to address […]
Order: 4th The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where the demand for water rises […]
RRC: ‘We have just released the first of a number of introductory factsheets, Monitoring and evaluating your river restoration projects. The factsheet provides an introduction to: Why monitor and evaluate your projects? Planning your monitoring and evaluation Monitoring methods Key monitoring principles Finding support for your monitoring Further information Over the next two months we will be releasing further […]