UK Coasts news

• UK 'not ready' for extreme weather like Storm Darragh, BBC News (Dec 08, 2024) — "There are risks to our food yields, there are risks to where we can build safe homes for people, and risks to our towns and cities which are built on coastlines. These things are very obvious and we should be acting now to tackle them.", Emma Pinchbeck, head of the Climate Change Committee
• Beach cleans aren’t just good for the sea – they can boost your mental health and encourage better behaviour, theconversation.com (Jul 19, 2024)
• ‘Give nature space and it will come back’: rewilding returns endangered species to UK’s south coast, theguardian.com (Jun 27, 2024)
• Kelp help? How Scotland’s seaweed growers are aiming to revolutionise what we buy, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2024)
• The UK’s coastal ‘ghost enclaves’ are the result of government failure on low-use homes, theconversation.com (May 23, 2024)
• ‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
• From sketch to sea: diving into Wales’ underwater farming revolution, positive.news (Feb 19, 2024)

• Plans approved to transform Lincolnshire golf course into wildlife haven, birdguides.com/news (Dec 30, 2023)
• ‘We can’t afford to wait’: a Cornish town faces climate threat head on, theguardian.com (Dec 14, 2023)
• The ‘lost’ underwater forests that came back from the dead, positive.news (Jun 06, 2023)
• How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront, The Conversation (May 11, 2023)
• One of UK’s largest seagrass beds discovered off Cornwall, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
• Protesters urge caution over St Ives climate trial amid chemical plans for bay, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
• The ‘bin-novative’ approach to rubbish that’s slashing beach litter, positive.news (Feb 16, 2023)

• Mussel Farming Is Healing the UK’s Coastal Food Chain, reasonstobecheerful.world (Dec 22, 2022)
• Climate change: UK sea level rise speeding up - Met Office, BBC News (Jul 28, 2022)

• Coastal saltmarsh 'engineered' to fight climate change, Nov 11, 2021...^[1]
• Seagrass: The plant that removes carbon 30 times faster than a rainforest, Sep 30, 2021...^[2]
• Blue Carbon – Ocean-based solutions to fight the climate crisis outlines the importance of the UK's seas in helping the UK to reach its goal of net zero by 2050. May 4, 2021...^[3] The Marine Conservation Society and Rewilding Britain are calling on UK governments to adopt ocean-based solutions at pace and scale by 2030.
• Ocean rewilding: England's largest seagrass restoration project begins, Apr 21, 2021...^[4]

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• Penzance wins first plastic-free status award to help clean up beaches, Dec 5, 2017...^[1]
• Millions of native oysters to be returned to the Solent, Apr 20, 2017...^[2]
• Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches falls by nearly half, Nov 22, 2016...^[3]
• Number of England's marine conservation zones nearly doubles; new zones branded useless by expert, January 17, 2016...^[4]

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