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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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...
In this workshop, Lynsey Kitching from CAPE Coaching & Development explored what resilience really means, the link to wellbeing, and why this is so important at work... and at home. Lynsey shared what really matters when building and maintaining resilience, some key techniques to use...
To mark 20 years of SocEnv, we spoke to Will Pope, one of its founders, to reflect on the progress made since then.
I’m not sure I have a single answer to this, I think there might be a couple at least. I was already a...
The River Crane in West London is the UK’s first urban Smarter Water Catchment and since 2020 has benefited from £3m of direct investment across five main themes – community and access; biodiversity; water quality; geomorphology and flooding – with at least £20m of further investment identified...
Oil and gas production and use is associated with exposure to health-relevant air pollutants including numerous volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
This webinar presents the results of field studies which investigated ambient VOC concentrations and potential routes to exposure within oil...
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