Ordnance Survey releases open dataset and free map of Britain’s Greenspaces
A Government initiative to make it easier for people to locate and access greenspaces launched on 10 July with the release of a new...
Algorithm enables rapid and effective tree census using Google Earth
Academics have developed technology which allows Google Earth to be used for a census of palm trees over vast swathes of land as part...
£50k bat cave opens in Scotland
Scotland-based firm NWH Group has invested £50,000 in preserving ‘bat caves’ at its Middleton Quarry site on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
The business acquired...
Rail operator’s infrastructure project “brings biodiversity to Bermondsey”
The construction of the Bermondsey Dive Under, a new railway junction to the east of London Bridge station, has increased biodiversity in the urban...
Successful projects announced for €3m research programme looking at offshore wind impacts
Wind power developer Vattenfall has awarded €3million of research funding to projects that promise to offer insight into the socio-economic impact of offshore wind...
Aerial mapping firm launches tree failure risk tool
In partnership with the University of Lancaster, aerial mapping company Bluesky has launched a new tool which can be used to predict the likelihood...
Fungi-on-plant-roots discovery has implications for sustainable agriculature and biotech
Nature’s most widespread and longest-lasting symbiotic relationship shows green promise for agriculture and biotechnology, say researchers
One of biology’s "most charismatic relationships", credited with helping...
Study aims to reveal cause of dwindling salmon numbers
The Atlantic Salmon Trust is hoping to reverse a century of decline in wild salmon numbers by announcing a major new study into their...
‘Agricultural revolution’ in Anglo-Saxon England sheds new light on medieval land use
Researchers from the University of Leicester will be shedding new light on how an ‘agricultural revolution’ in Anglo-Saxon England fueled the growth of towns...
New service aims to bridge gap between traditional air quality assessment practice and ecological...
EPR, a planning-focused ecological survey and design consultancy, has launched a standalone Air Quality Assessment service that it says bridges the gap between traditional...
UK start-up aims to stop illegal trawling and fishing using underwater structures
A small Devon-based company proposes to block illegal fishing boats and trawlers in the world's oceans by deploying artificial reef structures on the seabed...
Manchester group uses trees and green infrastructure to combat flooding and pollution
City of Trees - a group attempting to coordinate stakeholders and community groups across Greater Manchester for the purposes of restoring woodland - says...
New tool can help estimate genetically modified pollen spread
Food purists may have cause to celebrate thanks to a recent international study directed by the University of British Columbia. The study, which evaluated...
Curlews and puffins join the RSPB’s red list, but golden eagles are doing better
A report compiled by the RSPB and others warns that more than one quarter of UK birds are 'red listed' and in need of...
BASF challenges allotment holders to take the nematode challenge
Chemicals firm BASF, supplier of a leading brand of nematodes - the tiny worms that can be used in plant protection to control pests...
Seabed conditions key to survival of juvenile cod, haddock and whiting
Links between seabed type and quality are closely related to the abundance and size of young commercially fished species such as cod, haddock and...
Study reveals the global growth of ecological and environmental citizen science is fuelled by...
Scientists at the UK-based Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and the Natural History Museum, London have revealed the diversity of ecological and environmental...
Pesticide analysis with less hassle?
Chromatograpy specialist Restek suggests troublesome pesticides can be analysed more easily and accurately with its own range of single-compound standards.
New standards are available for...
The buzz around Nanosponge SERS and trace-level detection
Sensitive spectroscopy tools help identify substances linked to honeybee population decline
Optical sensing specialist Ocean Optics says it has shown how highly-sensitive, trace-level Raman spectroscopy...
Charitable foundation nominates Lake Tanganyika as “Threatened Lake of the Year”
The environmental foundation Global Nature Fund (GNF) has nominated Lake Tanganyika in East Africa as the “Threatened Lake of the Year 2017". On the...
