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New coastal revival fund and community teams to bring jobs and businesses to seaside towns

DCLG: ‘New Coastal Revival Fund will help kick-start the revival of at-risk coastal heritage. A new £3 million fund will help kick-start the revival of at-risk coastal heritage that has potential to create opportunities for new businesses and jobs. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-coastal-revival-fund-and-community-teams-to-bring-jobs-and-businesses-to-seaside-towns The Coastal Revival Fund will support communities looking to unlock the economic potential of […]

Florida banned state workers from using term ‘climate change’ – New report

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‘Global warming’ and ‘sustainability’ among phrases allegedly barred at state’s Department of Environmental Protection, investigative report finds. http://fcir.org/2015/03/08/in-florida-officials-ban-term-climate-change/ Officials with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the agency in charge of setting conservation policy and enforcing environmental laws in the state, issued directives in 2011 barring thousands of employees from using the […]

Flood Update: Groundwater maps – Levee Management – EFRA Funding – Defra emergency planning – Flood re

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Groundwater Flooding map made available This groundwater level information is particularly relevant for people living in areas prone to groundwater flooding. In the last month live groundwater level information for England has been made available via the following website: http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/ International Levee Handbook Published The International Levee Handbook (ILH) is a compendium of good practice, […]

UK Water Partnership launched to champion sector expertise and resilience

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Public and private sector bodies have joined forces to create the UK Water Partnership, a new body to promote water resilience and UK expertise in the sector around the globe. http://www.ukwrip.org//articles/new-uk-water-partnership Countries around the world require infrastructure investment – and underpinning it all is the need for reliable and sustainable water supplies. The UK Water […]

Water Capital Grants scheme – £14 million now available to farmers for water and woodlands

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The first grants have opened up under the new Rural Development Programme for England. The Water and Woodland Capital Grants make up the first phase of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. Set to be rolled out in full later in the summer, Countryside Stewardship will commit around £900m to benefitting the environment over the next six […]

Truly remarkable Video – Grouper stalking then eating Caribbean lionfish

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The arrival of the Indo-Pacific lionfish in the Caribbean has been major source of concern flagging once again the increase of alien species throughout the marine environment. One element of the narrative was that since the Caribbean was devoid of natural predators for the lionfish its rapid expansion across the region would decimate reef fish […]

Ocean Plastic Litter Update: Land to sea, Deep sea, A Solution

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Recently there have been a number of reports and papers on the sheer scale of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans http://cmscoms.com/?p=2789 ; recently more work has been published including: Plastic waste from land to sea – A paper in Science estimating levels in the world oceans http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768.abstract Dr Lucy Woodhall, was the lead author […]

Natural Capital Supporting Reports – The economic case for investment in Natural Capital and the marine appendix – Fisheries and shellfisheries

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Two useful reports: The economic case for investment in natural capital. This covers a wide variety of water and marine issues https://nebula.wsimg.com/8755553ec25d9cd0dc9407fa5e4aa408?AccessKeyId=68F83A8E994328D64D3D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 The economic case for investment in Natural Capital – marine appendix – fish and shellfisheries. This is a particularly useful economic assessment of the fisheries and shellfisheries sector https://nebula.wsimg.com/2fd9d1a8a42128eb4c8f7cd3f8c8c2c8?AccessKeyId=68F83A8E994328D64D3D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1