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Climate change will make outbreaks of West Nile virus more likely in the UK within the next 20-30 years, a new study has found. A new scientific model shows the risk of the mosquito-borne pathogen spreading to the country will increase as temperatures rise.
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The report offers, for the first time, a complete assessment of the potential of nature-based solutions (NbS) to mitigate climate change and benefit biodiversity in the UK. Incorporating contributions from over 100 experts, the comprehensive evaluation of the available evidence details the strengths, limitations and trade-offs of NbS in different habitats across the UK.
Professor Jane Memmott, President of the British Ecological Society, said: The Nature-based Solutions report offers a real basis for setting effective policies and incentives that will maximise the benefits of nature-based solutions in the UK for the climate and biodiversity.
The report finds that NbS can provide a valuable contribution to climate change mitigation and can simultaneously protect and enhance biodiversity, improve human wellbeing, bring economic benefit, and provide a wide range of ecosystem services.
The study is being funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the University of York.
The Firth of Forth has been selected as the main study location because it has more than 100 operational and disused waste sites and significant industrial and wastewater discharges. Researchers will focus on the impact on European shags, comparing their survival rates here against less polluted habitats.
The UK has more than 2,000 former and operational coastal landfill sites. They contain chemicals including unused medicines, pesticides and flame retardants. Older legacy sites , which may be exposed by coastal erosion, often contain large volumes of mining and coal gasification waste and fly ash.