17 Mar 2026
Photo by Ivan Bandura South West Water has pleaded guilty to 18 charges of water pollution spanning six years, in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency that concluded at Plymouth Magistrates Court on 12 March 2026. Sentencing is expected on 4 June 2026. The charges relate to illegal discharges including raw sewage spills at five […]
17 Mar 2026
Photo by Bob Brewer The UK’s shipping sector will for the first time be required to pay for its emissions when the Emissions Trading Scheme is extended to cover domestic shipping and port emissions from July 2026. Vessels of 5,000 gross tonnage and above will be brought into the scheme under legislation that completed its […]
17 Mar 2026
Photo by Bob Brewer The Scottish Government has concluded that no new regulation is needed to address fish mortality on salmon farms, following the publication of a Marine Directorate research report into persistent elevated deaths at marine sites. The finding, presented to the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Islands Committee on 11 March, has […]
17 Mar 2026
Photo by Cláudio Luiz Castro Chilean President Gabriel Boric has signed a decree granting full protection to 360,000km² of waters surrounding the Juan Fernández Archipelago and the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park – one of his final acts before leaving office on 11 March. Once fully implemented, the designation will bring the total fully protected area […]
17 Mar 2026
Photo by Soren Funk A year after millions of plastic pellets washed ashore on the coasts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire, clean-up teams are still working – and the full environmental impact on one of Britain’s most protected coastal ecosystems remains unclear. On 10 March 2025, the cargo ship Solong ploughed into the anchored oil tanker […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Markus Spiske The UK government is cutting hundreds of millions of pounds in climate and nature aid to developing countries, with NGOs warning that flagship ocean and biodiversity programmes, including the £500 million Blue Planet Fund, are now at risk. Freedom of Information requests, reported by the Guardian, have revealed reductions in spending […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Iqro Rinaldi Coastal sea levels around the world are significantly higher than assumed in most scientific risk assessments, a finding that could place tens of millions more people in the path of flooding than previously understood. The study, published in Nature, reviewed 385 peer-reviewed papers on sea level rise and coastal hazards published between […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Pierre Bamin Thousands of dead and dying seabirds have washed up on British and European coastlines in what the RSPB describes as the most significant seabird wreck since 2013–14, when more than 54,000 birds were recorded dead across European Atlantic coastlines. Since late January, puffins, guillemots and razorbills have been washing ashore from Cornwall […]
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