22 Jan 2025
The Environment Agency Chief Regulator, Dr Jo Nettleton, has called for the environmental regulation framework to be reformed in order to help better protect people and the environment and enable businesses to grow. The Chief Regulator’s newly-created role is to hold the Environment Agency to account in delivering its regulatory activities and to champion best […]
22 Jan 2025
Progress towards improving the environment has slowed with government still largely off track in achieving its legal environmental commitments, the latest annual assessment by the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has found. The OEP report provides an assessment of progress towards legally-binding environment targets, commitments and goals. The report covers the period 1 April 2023 […]
22 Jan 2025
A cross-border investigation by Unearthed into forever chemicals was released this week, turning up a number of interesting findings into a toxic chemicals crisis we’re only beginning to understand. The reporting effort – 46 journalists and 18 experts across 16 countries – has so far detailed the jaw-dropping cost of cleaning up these toxic forever […]
22 Jan 2025
A new analysis of 625 studies from 63 countries shows that the global expansion of built-up areas has fundamentally degraded water quality across the globe and suggests increases in forest cover can help reduce water pollution risks. Photo credit: Adam Sondel In recent decades the world’s landscapes have experienced profound changes, mainly due […]
22 Jan 2025
Is 2025 the year your organisation embraces social science evidence? People are a fundamental part of the ecosystems many of us work to restore and protect. To achieve our organisation’s missions, we need to understand and connect with stakeholders and human communities. But that isn’t always easy. The social sciences – those disciplines which allow […]
21 Jan 2025
Ecologist Dr Thomas Davies from the University of Plymouth has been driving the strategy for marine light pollution research and mobilising policy action since he published the first paper on the topic in 2014. He co-founded the Global Ocean Artificial Light at Night Network (GOALANN), endorsed by the United Nations Ocean Decade of Ocean Science […]
21 Jan 2025
Back in early 2024 the UK and Scottish Governments introduced a ban on sandeel fishing in Scottish waters and English waters of the North Sea in a move conservationists hailed as critical for saving the UK’s globally important seabird colonies. Now a challenge from the EU on the ban is set to be heard in […]
21 Jan 2025
Extra funding has been confirmed by the Welsh Government which will be used to support the recovery of the equivalent of 266 rugby pitches of critically important seagrass habitats. The additional £100,000 was announced by Huw Irranca-Davies, Deputy First Minister with responsibility for Climate Change and will be used to support the development of Seagrass […]
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