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Chalk streams should be given enhanced status, says strategy document

Envirotec Magazine

The strategy calls for enhanced status for chalk streams to drive investment to prevent pollution and over-abstraction, as well as restoring habitat to boost biodiversity. For many of these rivers and streams their water quality, the low flows, and the loss of biodiversity has meant they are no longer able to sustain healthy fish populations.

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The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines 

Grist

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines on Oct 5, 2023. He pointed to a feasibility study an engineering company filed with Virginia’s department of energy in support of a small modular nuclear reactor slated for a former strip mine in southwest Virginia.

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Breaking: Biodiversity

Business Green

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. We are, as has been well documented, deep into a great extinction event as flora and fauna are forced into ever smaller enclaves.

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UKGBC plots building industry guidance for embodied carbon and biodiversity net gain

Business Green

The UK Green Building Council mobilises team of experts to develop guidance on embodied carbon emissions, as it also unveils support documents ahead of new UK biodiversity net gain rules on their way later this year

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Global Briefing: Colombia to host pre-COP biodiversity summit

Business Green

Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.

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First-of-its-kind AI technology will record 3d flight of seabirds near wind farms in Aberdeen

Envirotec Magazine

Working with Spoor, a Norwegian pioneering AI start-up, the project will trial new technology to document how seabirds interact with offshore wind turbines. Being able to document avoidance behaviour accurately is vital for providing more realistic collision-risk modelling.

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Biodiversity net gain: Campaigners call for policy framework to police England's biodiversity offsets market

Business Green

UK government should introduce secondary legislation and guidance that can provide further clarity about how the biodiversity offset market will work and be policed, non-profit argue. To deliver policy efficiently and ensure clear market rules, it must include defined governmental roles and sufficient regulatory capacity," the document notes.