21 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock Southern Water has been fined £7,127,083 at Canterbury Crown Court for a series of illegal sewage discharges from pumping stations at Margate and Broadstairs between 2019 and 2021 that led Thanet District Council to close beaches at the height of successive summers. The company pleaded guilty earlier this year to 13 […]
21 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The UK Maritime Innovation Hub is emerging as a central point of engagement between innovators and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), the agency says in a progress update on its first three months of operation. Since its formal showcase at the Flag Forum in London on 16 April 2026, the […]
14 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Adobe Stock The regulatory system in England and Wales is the primary obstacle to restoring marine habitats at scale, according to a new report from the Blue Marine Foundation. Coastal Comeback argues that a licensing regime designed to control industrial development is being applied, largely unchanged, to projects whose purpose is ecological recovery, and sets […]
14 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Adobe Stock Bottom trawling is damaging the seabirds, dolphins and porpoises that many UK marine protected areas were created to safeguard, and should be banned across those sites, according to a new report from the campaign group Oceana UK. The report, Trawled and Mauled, argues that protection existing on paper is not being delivered […]
14 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Adobe Stock A new fund for the recovery of Wales’s marine and coastal ecosystems has opened a call for ideas, asking organisations across the country what work is needed and where the gaps lie. MARINE Fund Cymru, which stands for Marine Resilience and Improvement of Natural Ecosystems, is managed by the Wales Council for […]
14 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Adobe Stock Ocean science is expanding and drawing more collaboration and funding, yet remains too poorly resourced to meet the challenges facing the sea. That is the assessment of the third Global Ocean Science Report, whose executive summary was released on 30 June at a session of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in Paris. The report […]
14 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Adobe Stock The UK has ratified the High Seas Treaty, the international agreement that for the first time allows marine protected areas to be created in the ocean beyond national borders. The Foreign Secretary signed the document required for ratification, which was formally deposited with the United Nations in New York on 10 July, completing […]
14 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Adobe Stock A North Sea industry body has written to every Labour MP calling for more domestic oil and gas production, timing its appeal to the arrival of Andy Burnham, who is expected to become prime minister within days. The letter from Offshore Energies UK, co-signed by a range of business organisations and the GMB […]
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