13 Dec 2016
NUTFA Statement Opportunities and Challenges Introduction: Under ten metre fleet & Brexit Whilst the only certainty with regard to the post Brexit landscape [seascape] for fisheries is that there is no certainty, it does however provide the opportunity to start from a clean sheet on which to design our future. The previous Fisheries Minister, Richard […]
13 Dec 2016
Drones are a practical alternative to more traditional methods of counting seabirds for environmental assessments of offshore wind farms, a trial in the UK has proved. NIRAS has completed a successful trial using drones for a bird study on the east coast of England. The innovative study was funded by DONG Energy in order to […]
13 Dec 2016
30 Years of Water – the Ebb & Flow of Change Future Water Association has three initiatives bringing ‘Past, Present & Future’ together Ebb & Flow Photography Competition – Celebrating the UK’s Water Sector Supported by PwC, Ebb & Flow aims to promote and reward excellence in photography across the water sector, with a past, […]
07 Dec 2016
A new scientific review of the winter floods of 2015/2016 confirms that the event was one of the most extreme and severe hydrological events of the last century. The new hydrological appraisal – ‘The Winter Floods of 2015/2016 in the UK’, published on the first anniversary of Storm Desmond (December 5th), brings together both river […]
07 Dec 2016
Climate change: Impact of land management on flood risk ignored for too long – How Natural flood management and using land more intelligently will limit flood damage In an Expert Focus article on Waterbriefing, Daniel Johns, head of adaptation at the Committee on Climate Change explores how natural flood management and using land more intelligently will […]
07 Dec 2016
A new report is warning that the majority of new local plans in England are failing to cut carbon emissions and to plan for the scale of severe weather predicted over future years. The report Planning for the Climate Challenge? Understanding the performance of English Local Plans, which examined the most recently prepared plans in England, found […]
07 Dec 2016
James Murray – businessGreen ‘Brexit means Brexit, as our tautological Prime Minister is wont to say. It also means ‘having our cake and eating it’ if poorly concealed government briefing notes are to be believed. Although anyone pinning too much hope on patisserie-based negotiating strategies should recall European Council President Donald Tusk’s pointed observation earlier this summer: […]
07 Dec 2016
Welsh Water launches pesticide awareness campaign to protect drinking water quality Launch of pesticide awareness campaign to protect drinking water Free pesticide disposal scheme Award winning Weed Wiper trial extended and expanded A new public awareness campaign which encourages people to consider ‘smarter’ ways of weed, pest and disease control that do not impact on […]
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