This text is from the Catchment Based Approach website and it is interesting to note the range of material becoming available under the open access thinking. March 2015 update to the data & GIS package is now available including: – Landcover maps (LCM 2000 & 2007) – Risk of flooding from rivers and sea (NAFRA) […]
Defra 17 January 2016 ‘Twenty-three new Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) will bring the total to 50 and cover more than a fifth of English waters. Twenty-three new areas along the UK coast were today announced as the latest Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) to be awarded environmental protection by the government, extending the country’s ‘Blue Belt’ […]
The green light for North Yorkshire coastal path reinforces recent Government announcements on their commitment to coastal path investment. Defra 15th Jan ‘New coastal paths have been approved from Filey Brigg to Newport Bridge and Dunball Wharf to St Audries Bay. The longest single section of coastal path ever to be approved has been given […]
Griffin Carpenter 12 January 2016 New Economics Foundation ‘With an In/Out referendum on the horizon, we take a look at one of the EU’s most maligned and misunderstood policies. (CFP), more commonly referred to as the EU’s “disastrous fishing policy”, the EU’s “most discredited and unpopular policy” or simply “the worst EU policy”, is without […]
The main article was carried in Nature: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18573 ‘Organochlorine (OC) pesticides and the more persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have well established does – dependent toxicities to birds, fish and mammals in experimental studies, but the actual impact of OC pollutants on European marine top predators remains unknown. Here we show that several cetacean species have […]
The Capturing Our Coast project is taking off with the different regional hubs advertising the project and regional links. http://capturingourcoast.co.uk/home The £1.7m Capturing Our Coast project, funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund, is designed to further our understanding of the abundance and distribution of marine life around the UK. Marine Conservation Society (MCS), is running […]
What’s so special about this? Believe it or not, this is the world’s oldest animal Ocean quahogs (Artica islandica) are found in the North Atlantic. The oldest recorded specimen was 507 years old. Their rings can also tell us a lot about climate change. The proposed South […]
The Prime Minister, Rt Hon David Cameron MP, appears before the Liaison Committee. The meeting focuses on (1) Syria and (2) Climate Change and Flooding. Watch Parliament TV: Evidence from the Prime Minister Read the transcript: Evidence from the Prime Minister ( PDF 329 KB) Liaison Committee Rt Hon Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the Liaison […]