10 years since grounding of MSC Napoli
...call after suffering ‘catastrophic damage’ to its hull. All 26 crew were airlifted to safety in a rescue operation co-ordinated by UK coastguards. Force 11 northerly winds made it impossible...
A low carbon future – time for asset managers to switch investments
The Governor of the Bank of England has highlighted that one obstacle to a smooth adjustment to a low carbon future has been the absence of information to help make a market in climate-related financial risk. As he has observed, …
Surveying Atlantic Salmon in West Greenland
I work as a fisheries specialist in the Solent and South Downs team. The Environment Agency and our partners recently set out a long-term plan to help conserve salmon stocks and this is an important part of my job. The …
How do we protect our breeding fish at this time of year?
Every year usually between November and January the rivers of the North East are full of life as Salmon, Sea trout and Brown trout come to lay their eggs in the oxygen rich, clean gravels. Following long journeys back to …
We’ve repaired and prepared - a year after storms caused devastating floods
It’s now one year on from Storm Desmond, the first of the storms that brought heavy bands of rain and caused significant flooding last winter. December 2015 was the wettest month for the UK since records began in 1910. Around …
Winter is coming…
Last December Storm Desmond hammered the UK, putting many of our Monitoring & Forecasting Duty Officers through their paces. Just short of a year later and we’re at the end of our training programme with an additional officers trained across …
Tackling illegal fishing
The past 33 years of my life has been spent protecting fisheries, particularly salmon fisheries, from illegal fishing and also making sure that legitimate anglers are not cheated by those who fish without paying their way. I am very lucky …
Assessing the design of new nuclear power stations
You can't have missed the news about new nuclear power stations recently. The Government decided to proceed with the first new nuclear power station for a generation at Hinkley Point C in Somerset. EDF Energy has just published plans for …
Preparing for that rainy day....
I work in a flood resilience team in East Anglia and my role focuses on working with local communities to help them understand their flood risk https://floodsdestroy.campaign.gov.uk/. Working with communities across such a diverse area is in my (unbiased!) view …
Make your home more flood resilient
...is half the battle. How to protect your home Being told to ‘protect our own homes from being flooded’ is all very well, however, just how do we do this?...