Biodiversity Net Gain Changes 2026: What Developers, Planners and Ecologists Must Know Now
Published: May 2026 | UK News Between 6,000 and 10,000 hectares of habitat are lost to development in England every year — a figure that Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) legislation was designed to arrest. Now, a wave of confirmed policy changes is reshaping how that obligation works in practice. The Biodiversity Net Gain changes 2026 […]
Ocean Acidification Effects on Marine Biodiversity Surveys: Protocols for BNG Compliance in Acidifying Waters
Since the Industrial Revolution, ocean pH has dropped from approximately 8.2 to 8.1 — a shift that sounds small but represents a 26% increase in ocean acidity. For marine ecologists tasked with measuring biodiversity in coastal and offshore environments, this chemical transformation is not a distant forecast. It is already reshaping which species survive, which […]
