24 Sep 2024
Small marine crustaceans, like Antarctic krill, are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research. The study reveals that krill store comparable amounts of carbon to ‘blue carbon’ habitats such as mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses. Lead author Dr. Emma Cavan from Imperial College London said, […]
12 Sep 2024
UKWIR has published a useful new report: Improved understanding of retrofit SuDS whole life cost, carbon and delivery to enable deployment It shows that the costs, carbon and wider delivery complexities of retrofitting SuDS are generally poorly understood and very sensitive to assumptions and the local context. This is a risk for companies when committing […]
10 Sep 2024
Scientists from multiple institutions are to investigate the impact of British wind farms on the seabed amid plans to build up to 25,000 more offshore turbines. The researchers, upon a private survey vessel, examined one of the oldest active offshore wind farms in the UK, the Ørsted wind farm, off the coast of Cumbria. The […]
10 Sep 2024
The Earth Observation for Marine and Climate Mission (EO4MCM) development programme is part of a wider £15 million government investment announced in 2022. It aims to identify and develop instruments for applications relating to climate change, maritime and net zero, which are suitable for deployment on constellations of small satellites. The EO4MCM projects will be […]
10 Sep 2024
New technology built at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) that can measure the smallest trace of light beneath the ocean surface has revealed photosynthesis occurring at greater depths than previously believed. The discovery is part of a new international study recently published in Nature Communications that shows how the photosynthetic potential of phytoplankton […]
05 Sep 2024
Wastewater treatment works’ process emissions: optimisation of current processes As the monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the UK & Irish water industries is increasingly built into regulatory requirements, there is a need to limit the emissions linked with wastewater treatment works’ (WWTWs’) operational practices. The aim of this project was to set out […]
05 Sep 2024
New research suggests that warmer water in rivers and lakes resulting from climate change, along with pollution from sewage and farming are having an even bigger effect on aquatic life than previously thought. Almost half of all fish species and 10% of mammals rely on rivers and lakes for survival but a combination of climate […]
28 Aug 2024
Ofwat and CCW, the consumer body for water, have published the final report from a programme of research into people’s experience of water incidents, including supply interruptions, drinking water quality problems and odour. Key themes that emerged included a lack of customer focus in incident management and inadequate communications. Ofwat also provided suggestions and good […]
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