15 Jul 2025
Photo by Ian Taylor The Indian state of Kerala has initiated legal proceedings against the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), demanding $1.1 billion in compensation after the container vessel MSC Elsa 3 sank off the coast of Kochi in May 2025. The sinking resulted in the release of diesel fuel and hazardous cargo into the Arabian Sea, […]
15 Jul 2025
Photo by William Hook The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has launched the SkateSpotter app, a new tool designed to aid in the conservation of the critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius). This free mobile application allows anglers, divers, and the general public to upload photographs of flapper skates, which are then used to build a photo-identification […]
10 Jul 2025
Ofwat has proposed a £24m enforcement package following its findings that South West Water has failed to meet it legal obligations in managing its wastewater treatment works and network. These failures resulted in the company spilling wastewater to the environment when it should not have done. This announcement represents the next stage of Ofwat’s largest […]
10 Jul 2025
Image description: a red tractor ploughing a field, with white birds surrounding it. Image by Tian Dayong / Unsplash. The Guardian has broken a story on an Environment Agency (EA) insider blowing the whistle on what they describe as a “deliberate and ongoing cover-up” of the public health and environmental dangers of spreading sewage […]
10 Jul 2025
Image description: A drak green hosepipe stored away in a garden. Image by VariousPhotography / Pixabay Yorkshire Water is introducing a hosepipe ban affecting more than five million people, that come into effect from Friday (11 July). It marks the first hosepipe ban to be declared in the UK this year. Yorkshire Water said […]
10 Jul 2025
Image description: The River Seine in Paris, flowing in front of the Eiffel Tower. Image by Jenny Frost / Unsplash The River Seine reopened to public swimmers in Paris on Saturday July 5, marking the first time since 1923 that bathers could take a dip in the iconic waterway following a years-long cleanup effort. […]
10 Jul 2025
Natural Resources Wales’s (NRW) Four Rivers for LIFE project has completed an additional fish pass on the Llanwrda Dulais, an important salmon and trout spawning tributary of the River Tywi. This is the third fish pass improvement scheme to be installed on this stretch of river, meaning more than eight miles will now be accessible […]
08 Jul 2025
56th Annual Conference Conserving UK Fish Habitats in a Changing Environment 14 – 15 October 2025 Future Inn, Bristol Call for Papers This year’s IFM Annual Conference will be hosted by the Southwest Branch and will be held in the wonderful city of Bristol. In an era of accelerating environmental change and growing pressures on […]
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