25 Aug 2021

There are a number of new documents on the Defra website relating to water and habitats – ponds, lakes, ditches etc., which seem to have been released to support the sustainable farming initiative. Create ponds and lakes Find out how land managers can create new clean freshwater ponds and lakes to benefit wildlife and improve […]

25 Aug 2021

Staycationers urged to become #WaterWarriors this summer Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer. Staycationers are being urged to become #WaterWarriors and make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer in a new Environment Agency campaign launched today. Record numbers are expected to holiday at home […]

25 Aug 2021

Have you caught a Pacific pink salmon in England? The inland and coastal waters of England are home to a host of different fish species, but we can now add another name to that list, the Pacific pink salmon. Up until recently, catching a Pacific pink salmon was as rare as netting a red herring. […]

17 Aug 2021

This review identified key areas of the planning process related to flood risk management and sets out actions the government will take to strengthen its approach. The government’s Planning for the Future policy paper announced a review of policy for building in areas at flood risk. In July 2020 the government published its Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk […]

17 Aug 2021

Guidance from Defra and the outcomes of a major review from Eftec of natural capital accounting. Defra ‘Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital. ENCA guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital. It covers: the natural capital framework economic […]

17 Aug 2021

Nature ‘Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this Review, we provide a synthesis of the atmospheric, land surface and socio- economic processes that produce river floods with disastrous consequences. Disastrous floods have […]