On 24th September 2024 DAERA (Department of Agriculture, Environmental, and Rural Affairs) published its first Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), as a requirement under the Environment Act 2021. This was following a 14-month delay, as the plan was due to be published on 25th July 2023.
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October 2024
environmental SCIENTIST | Counting on Net Gain | September 2024
Ellie Savage and Ethny Childs consider the challenges, opportunities and next steps for this ambitious policy.
Mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) came into...
August 2024
IES Environmental Policy Team · From the Archive 10 - Proposed planning reforms & economic growth
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This article discusses the proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) that were announced...
August 2024
environmental SCIENTIST | Where Green Meets Machine | June 2024
Benjamin C. Evans, Marcus Rowcliffe, Chris Carbone, Emma L. Cartledge, Nida Al-Fulaij, Henrietta Pringle, Richard Yarnell, Philip A. Stephens, Russell Hill, Kate Scott-Gatty, Chloe Hartland and...
August 2024
PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) contamination of groundwater is a widespread problem on a massive scale, impacting the water sources that 65% of Europeans1 use for drinking, bathing, and cooking.
According to the European Environment Agency, human biomonitoring has...
June 2024
In this interview, editors of environmental SCIENTIST Bea Gilbert and Lucy Rowland discuss how they experimented with AI software ChatGPT and DreamStudio for the latest issue of the journal.
You decided to use ChatGPT to guest edit and write the editorial for the June issue of...
