03 Jul 2025
Image description: A close up shot of a striped blue school tie and navy blazer, with a yellow prefect badge in view. Image by ROBIN WORRALL / Unsplash Potential ban on PFAS and plastic in UK school uniform The children’s wellbeing and schools bill, which applies mainly to England and Wales and is at […]
03 Jul 2025
Image: A beach cleaning bag with the Surfers Against Sewage logo, lying on a sandy beach. Image by Surfing Croyde / Unsplash Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) have released the results of a representative poll conducted on adults in England and found “52% of those surveyed don’t trust the Government to put in place the […]
03 Jul 2025
Image description: Water being poured from a bottle into a glass. Image by Pixabay Italian court delivers first PFAS contamination conviction In the Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to prison terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with Per- and […]
03 Jul 2025
Image description: An aerial view of a sewage treatment works. Photo by Patrick Federi / Unsplash Britain’s Southern Water has secured up to 1.2 billion pounds ($1.65 billion) of equity from a consortium led by Australia’s Macquarie Asset Management and agreed to refinancing terms with creditors to avert a debt crisis. Southern Water, which […]
03 Jul 2025
Image description: aerial view of sewage treatment works. Image by Tom Fisk / Pexels. More than half of Thames Water’s 351 sewage treatment works do not have the capacity to treat the sewage they receive, according to independent research published by the Oxford Rivers Improvement Campaign (ORIC). Using data secured through Environmental Information Requests, […]
01 Jul 2025
New detailed assessments of marine protected areas (MPA) in Wales show which habitats and species are doing well in Welsh waters, but highlight the need for more action to improve habitat, biodiversity and water quality, according to Natural Resources Wales (NRW). A total of 85 features designated across 17 marine special areas of […]
01 Jul 2025
Image description: A blue sea star (Linckia laevigata) photographed on a largely dead reef on the Coral Coast on Fiji’s largest island, Viti Levu. The damage to the reef is likely caused by a number of stressors, including prolonged water temperatures, storm surges and fertiliser input from agriculture on land, as well as overfishing of […]
01 Jul 2025
Image description: Silhouette of windfarm against a sunset sky. Image by Anna Jiménez Calaf / Unsplash Following recent reports that there are just two years remaining at current emission rates to meet the international target of 1.5°C, it is welcome news that the UK can meet its net zero targets for 2050, according to […]
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