30 Oct 2024
Severn Trent has launched a new incentive scheme in partnership with Nectar360, which owns and operates Nectar, rewarding customers for adopting a smart meter and reducing their water usage. The scheme will see Nectar account holders rewarded with extra points for demonstrating lower water usage through their smart meters. Photo credit: Neal Smith […]
29 Oct 2024
Image credit: Sea salps, captured by David Hamilton, won the Ocean Wonders category. BBC News Cornwall. Welcome to OCF’s insights from the marine and coastal sector. This week we have summarised the most relevant stories for you from a range of Marine and Coastal Sectors, including: Fisheries; Aquaculture; Offshore Wind; Conservation; Climate; Science and […]
29 Oct 2024
Image. Felix Mettermeier/Pixabay Greenhouse gas levels surged to a new record in 2023, committing the planet to rising temperatures for many years to come, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Carbon dioxide (CO2) is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than any time experienced during human existence, rising by more than […]
29 Oct 2024
Image: Dimitris Vetsikas/Pixabay The High Seas Treaty currently fills a key gap in international governance by establishing a mechanism for governments to establish Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the high seas. But funding is needed to kickstart the work of accelerating these MPAs, with a focus on supporting the Global South leadership ambitions and […]
29 Oct 2024
Since its launch in 2004, the BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database (STDB) has become one of the most comprehensive marine conservation collaborations in the world. It hosts the largest collection of seabird tracking data in existence, transforming how researchers and policymakers address the growing threats to seabirds and the marine environment in general. Photo: Gannet […]
29 Oct 2024
More than a million dead fish, the biggest mass die-off of farmed salmon in Scotland in a decade, have been recorded at a farm belonging to the UK’s largest supplier. The deaths at two adjacent Mowi Scotland sites in Loch Seaforth on the Outer Hebrides – licensed as one farm rose to just over a […]
29 Oct 2024
Twenty-three percent of Jersey’s territorial waters will receive far-reaching protections from destructive fishing practices after States members unanimously approved the island’s first Marine Spatial Plan in a landmark vote. The plan, which passed with 40 votes in favour and no votes against, sets out how the Jersey’s ‘marine estate’ should be managed in […]
29 Oct 2024
Image: Gilles Lagne/Pixabay In a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, an international team sampled 34 groups of short-beaked and long-beaked common dolphins amounting to thousands of individuals, in experiments where simulated as well as operational military sonars were activated in carefully controlled conditions — or deliberately not played in […]
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