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Eating mackerel no longer sustainable because of overfishing, says charity

Mackerel is no longer a sustainable fish to eat because of overfishing, an environmental charity has said. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS), which grades the sustainability of fish through a traffic light system called the Good Fish Guide, said ...

05 Apr 2023 at 10:35

Scotland

Need to protect marine areas has ‘never been greater’, ministers told

The introduction of measures to prevent “damaging” activities in many of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has “stalled”, environmental campaigners claimed. While green groups celebrated when the Scottish Government designated 32 MPAs a ...

12 Aug 2024 at 00:01

Boots to stop selling all plastic-based wet wipes by end of the year

Boots is to stop selling all wet wipes that contain plastic fibres by the end of the year. The pharmacy chain, which sold more than 800 million wet wipes in the last year, said it would replace plastic-based wipes with plant-based ...

19 Apr 2022 at 01:25

More than 480,000 items of litter removed from UK beaches in nationwide survey

More than 480,000 items of litter were removed from UK beaches in 2023 as part of a nationwide survey. In the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) annual beach clean, 14,721 volunteers picked up rubbish from their local beaches ...

20 Mar 2024 at 00:01

Oysters returned to Firth of Forth for first time in a century

Native oysters have returned to the Firth of Forth for the first time in 100 years following a restoration project. Restoration Forth aims to reintroduce 30,000 oysters to the area and create an oyster reef in the estuary, ...

21 Sept 2023 at 00:01

UK’s first deposit return scheme ‘cannot go ahead as planned’, minister says

Scotland’s planned deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks cans and bottles “cannot go ahead as currently planned”, the minister in charge of it has admitted. Lorna Slater said the scheme – which was to have been the first ...

06 Jun 2023 at 15:35

Mackerel slips further down the sustainability scale in latest ‘good fish guide’

Mackerel is under immense pressure from overfishing, conservationists warned, as they lowered its rating in the latest sustainable fish guide. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has updated its Good Fish Guide, which ...

09 Apr 2025 at 00:01

More Portuguese man o’war jellyfish spotted along UK coastline

An increase in sightings of Portuguese man o’war jellyfish, which can cause whip-like wounds from their stings, has been recorded in a survey of marine wildlife along the UK coastline. Members of the public reported a ...

03 Nov 2022 at 01:01

All parties should back bottle recycling scheme, say conservationists

All political parties are being urged to back a recycling scheme for drink containers in their manifestos. A coalition of environmental groups is calling for a UK-wide deposit return scheme as parties prepare to ...

31 May 2024 at 00:01

Positive signs oysters settling in well after reintroduction to Firth of Forth

Marine experts have expressed delight over positive signs that thousands of oysters released into the Firth of Forth are settling in well to their new environment. Heriot-Watt University, one of a group of ...

11 Nov 2024 at 13:16

Scotland

Volunteers found drinks-related rubbish on 95% of beach litter surveys – charity

21 Mar 2023 at 00:01

Level of ‘forever chemicals’ found to rise after sewage spills in protected area

The levels of long-lasting toxins known as “forever chemicals” rose in a highly protected marine area after sewage discharges, researchers found. The University of Portsmouth teamed up with the ...

16 Oct 2024 at 00:01

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