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Stories from across the SWEEP network
National Lottery Heritage Fund awards £9.5 million to make the dream of establishing the UK’s first National Park in the…
Cornwall’s farmers could unlock “natural capital” worth millions of pounds, a new report suggests. Natural capital means benefits humans get from…
A major new report on climate change that draws on the expertise of a leading University of Exeter Business School…
SWEEP researchers from the University of Plymouth are among the authors of a major new report detailing how nature can…
Cooling our streets, reducing air pollution and improving our wellbeing, nature can provide a host of solutions to the issues facing our cities,…
Sussex Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority (IFCA) has announced the confirmation of its Nearshore Trawling Byelaw, which drew on SWEEP…
Funding for green and blue public spaces has suffered in recent years, whilst our appreciation of the health and wellbeing…
SWEEP Marine Lead and Professor of Ocean and Society at the Univerity of Plymouth, Mel Austen, provided expert evidence to…
Researchers from SWEEP, the Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Futures (SAF) and the Renewable Energies Department (Penryn) at the University of…
The Natural Capital Committee (NCC), the independent committee advises the government on natural capital, such as forests, rivers, minerals and…
Businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have joined forces with experts at SWEEP and the University of Exeter…
A report by SWEEP/University of Plymouth estimating future rates of coastal erosion in East Devon over the next 100 years has…
A new environmental intelligence tool for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will help protect the region’s precious wildlife and…
In its latest report to government, the Natural Capital Committee (NCC) highlights that England’s natural environment remains off track to…
Scientists from the University of Plymouth are among a team that has dismissed suggestions half the world’s beaches could become…
Researchers from SWEEP, the Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Futures, and the Renewable Energies department (Penryn) at the University of Exeter…
A fund of up to £40 million that will create jobs in nature recovery and conservation opens today. Grants from…
After years of uncertainty, England’s first wild breeding population of beavers for 400 years has been given the permanent right…
