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 […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by M S Premier Marinas has applied for an interim one-year dredging licence for Brighton Marina after its previous ten-year permit was quashed last year following a successful legal challenge over the disposal of sediment within a Marine Conservation Zone. The application, submitted to the Marine Management Organisation on 6 March, opened a 28-day […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Franki Chamaki A wave of UK supermarkets is pulling back from northeast Atlantic mackerel amid growing concern over stock levels, after scientific advice called for a 70% reduction in catches to allow populations to recover. Waitrose moved first, announcing on 26 February that it would suspend sourcing of fresh, chilled and frozen mackerel by […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Michael Blum The first puffins of 2026 have returned to RSPB Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast, marking the start of the seabird breeding season at one of the UK’s most important mainland colonies — though conservationists say the arrival cannot be taken for granted. Bempton is home to around half […]
10 Mar 2026
Photo by Torsten Dederichs The world’s largest krill harvester is at the centre of a growing dispute over its “sustainable” certification, after WWF and the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition formally objected to a proposal to recertify the fishery under the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue tick label — the latest development in a year […]
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