{"id":125905,"count":7,"description":"All energy-related activities change the environment in some way, for example conventional power stations emit carbon dioxide, other pollutants and reject heat to the atmosphere and hydrosphere.  Renewable energy is not without impacts: wind and solar take up land and require access roads; wind power could start to affect atmospheric processes if deployed on a large enough scale; tidal power could affect water quality, biodiversity and geomorphology; wave power could impact upon surfing beaches.  Not to mention the use of resources and energy in the construction of renewable energy systems.  Therefore it is essential to consider the impacts of renewable energy on ecosystems services, against the baseline of increasing fossil fuel consumption and climate change.    ","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/category\/research\/environmental-impacts\/","name":"Environmental Impacts","slug":"environmental-impacts","taxonomy":"category","parent":69,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/125905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/69"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=125905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}