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• Sardines are having a moment but could this humble fish turn the tide for the UK’s local fisheries?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Sep 03, 2026) — Can the UK learn from Iberian traditions and turn its booming love for tinned sardines into a lasting win for coastal communities?
• Village facing 'existential' threat from climate change, BBC News (Jul 05, 2026)
• At this grassroots festival, nature is the headline act, positive.news (Jun 09, 2026) — A UK festival is swapping big-name acts for beach cleans, wildlife walks and community-led events that ‘nourish the soul’
• The UK’s ocean health report card is damning, and protected areas aren’t enough, theconversation.com (Apr 30, 2026)
• Can wild swimming unite communities against single-use plastics?, positive.news (Feb 14, 2026)

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• A vast oyster reef is about to transform the English coast, positive.news (Dec 08, 2025)
• 'Nobody owns the sand': The 12-metre fence dividing an affluent beach town, BBC News (Nov 01, 2025)
• Bottom trawling ban hailed by fishing groups, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025) — Fishing campaigners say a bottom trawling ban in West Sussex could be a "blueprint of success" for other parts of the South East
• ‘You don’t get to aim big when you are somewhere small’: A teenager’s fight to end single use plastics on her Scottish island, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025)
• Scotland’s first community-led marine conservation network, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Aug 28, 2025)
• The UK is losing its small fishing boats – and the communities they support, theconversation.com (Aug 08, 2025)
• Residents being asked how best to spend £20m grant, BBC News (Jul 29, 2025)
• New stretch of national coast path opens on island, BBC News (Jun 24, 2025)
• Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jun 13, 2025)
• Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life, theconversation.com (Jun 06, 2025)
• Why the British are flooding parts of their coast, Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt, news.mongabay.com (Mar 19, 2025)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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]

References

• 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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