The government’s goal to restore the natural environment within a generation, coupled with its proposed reforms to public payments to farmers after the UK leaves the EU, have created the possibility of a radically different policy framework for managing land and water.
An Environment Agency (EA) project designed to protect the flood warning service for Stanhope has also been successful in improving fish passage on the River Wear.
Installing the fish pass at Stanhope will allow more fish species to pass upstream over the weir, improving access to c15mi of spawning and nursery grounds. The pass includes a series of baffles – metal plates fixed to a concrete channel – which slow the flow of water enabling fish to pass over more easily. The improvements are set to benefit species such as salmon and trout in particular.
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) has secured a £27.8 million National Capability funding award.
The money from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) – worth £5.7 million annually for five years – will fund a programme of research that is designed to deliver new integrated understanding of the environment.
On the fifth anniversary of the launch of the first COSMOS-UK site, Hollie Cooper, a Research Associate at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, looks at the origins and growth of our pioneering soil moisture monitoring network.
October 2, 2018, marked five years since the installation of the first COSMOS-UK soil moisture site, located at Chimney Meadows in West Oxfordshire.
We are pleased to inform you that a new website, ‘The Flood Hub’, will be launched in November – a website developed for the North West to help homeowners, businesses, communities and landowners manage their flood risk and become more flood resilient. The Flood Hub has been funded by the North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) and is a joint initiative developed by Newground, the Environment Agency, United Utilities, and the Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire Strategic Flood Partnerships.
CEH climate modeller Chris Huntingford tells us more about a recent China-UK collaboration aiming to generate a better understanding of large-scale catchment properties and runoff under climate change...
Wild eels are being microchipped in a bid to bring them back from the brink of global extinction.
Numbers of glass eels returning to the UK have decreased by 95% in the past 40 years due to habitat loss and obstructions in waterways hindering their movements, according to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT).
The trust blames “low-lying land reclamation, flood control measures - such as tidal flaps - and obsolete industrial structures like weirs” for destroying and preventing access to eels’ habitat.
From the Center for Watershed Protection
After two years of hard work by a whole range of people and partner organisations, Rewilding Britain announce the O’r Mynydd i’r Môr/Summit to Sea project is happening.