From time to time we'll be updating this page with anything interesting we find out about that's going on in the sub-region and what we're up to with the data centre.
This should include features and functions as they're added, interesting data sets we've been given, dug up or are currently trying to source and anything else that we think is interesting.
If you have any information which would be of interest to the humber community, please let us know and we'll stick it on as news.
Articles are listed for 2 months.
Biological warfare is to be declared on an alien invader, Japanese knotweed, that swamps gardens and rivers, with the release of an insect to eat the virulent weed. The decision by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the first allowing one non-native species, a flying insect resembling a miniature moth, to control the seemingly unstoppable spread of an alien plant.
| Posted: | Tuesday 9th March 2010 |
| link: | http://tiny.cc/ewrI9 |
| author: | mark.wills@neyedc.co.uk |
Work starts this month [February] on a trial in East Yorkshire which could shape the way that the Environment Agency nationally manages the risk of flooding. Burstwick Drain, which flows through Hedon, near Hull, is one of six locations around the country that will be part of an Environment Agency national trial into the maintenance of watercourses. The study aims to show if watercourse maintenance, which ranges from dredging to cutting back vegetation, has any significant effect on reducing the risk of flooding.
| Posted: | Tuesday 16th February 2010 |
| link: | http://tinyurl.com/yjjngym |
| author: | clare.langrick@humber-edc.org.uk |