Marybeth Collins Across North America, water availability, quality standards, and regulatory expectations are tightening in ways that are starting to affect permit timelines, capital decisions, and where companies choose to grow. This is not a warning about what might happen. For many facilities teams, it is already happening. The Compliance Shift That Snuck Up on…
In early April 2016, something mysterious happened: dead fish began washing up on the beaches of Vietnam’s Hà Tĩnh province. Not just a few – literal tons. And then dead fish began appearing elsewhere, all along Vietnam’s four central provinces. This was an environmental crisis – but it was also an economic catastrophe. Citizens across…
Doha – Qatar: Invest Qatar, the Investment Promotion Agency of Qatar, convened business leaders from Qatar’s international business community for a high-level Investor Dialogue, reaffirming the State’s commitment to maintaining a stable and resilient business environment despite regional developments. The event brought together key stakeholders from across Qatar’s private sector, providing a platform to exchange…
We are what we eat, they say. It might be more accurate to say that we are what phytoplankton at the bottom of the food chain serve up. Now, as the planet warms, in the oceans by the poles the phytoplankton are starting to dish up junk food, a new study warns. Climate change is…
The years seem to be coming around very quickly – this will be my ninth spring at this farm. As the days get longer and the grass begins to grow, my mind turns to lambing. We have a short growing season here, so we plan for lambing to start mid-April, hoping the grass will have started growing by…
A whistleblower working in the heart of the Caithness peatlands has claimed that millions of plastic beads are being “spread all over the Flow Country” following a series of equipment failures. The claims, which have been backed by Thurso and northwest Caithness councillor Matthew Reiss, suggest that specialised plastic mats used to create temporary roadways…
THE Port of London Authority has unveiled a new £175,000 fund to support community-based environmental projects along the tidal Thames. The new Environment Fund follows on from a fund which the PLA has operated for 5 years, during which time it has backed 26 projects with £180,000 of funding. Last year, £50,000 went to support six environmental…
“I’m a glorified clam counter.” So said Marco Hatch, a marine ecologist at Western Washington University and an enrolled member of the Samish Indian Nation. Hatch has been conducting surveys of mollusks growing in and around clam gardens in the Pacific north-west, as he collaborates with seven Indigenous communities to build or rebuild these rock-walled,…
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“There’s not many jobs where you get to be a sea gardener,” says Dr Oliver Thomas, senior science officer at Project Seagrass. He’s looking for flashes of eel grass that have survived the winter in the wide golden sand of Penrhyn beach on Ynys Môn (Anglesey), in north Wales. But growing a meadow in the…
