04 Dec 2025
The UK Government has published its revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), setting out a new five-year roadmap to tackle the nature and climate crisis while creating a greener and more prosperous future. The plan is required under the Environment Act and is designed to meet targets to restore the natural environment. Water at the […]
04 Dec 2025
The Chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called on the government and regulators to take immediate and decisive action in response to the committee’s findings on the “failing water sector,” according to a recent statement from the Parliamentary committee’s news service UK Parliament. The Committee’s action follows its inquiry into water sector regulation, which scrutinised […]
04 Dec 2025
Communities across south-east England have launched the first coordinated wave of legal complaints to hold Thames Water accountable for widespread sewage pollution, according to The Guardian. The action involves residents from 13 areas, including Hackney, Oxford, Richmond upon Thames, and Wokingham, who are sending formal statutory nuisance complaints to their local authorities. These complaints demand urgent action from Thames Water, […]
04 Dec 2025
A landmark investigation has exposed a widespread environmental hazard across Europe, where thousands of unlined, forgotten landfill sites are at risk of releasing toxic chemicals into water supplies and ecosystems as rising flood risks driven by climate change threaten to breach them. The findings are the result of the “Toxic Ground” investigation, a collaborative […]
04 Dec 2025
The UK transport sector is facing growing hazards, including flooding and landslides, as a result of climate change making British winters warmer and wetter, according to new guidance released by the Met Office and the Department for Transport (DfT). The two bodies have collaborated on a report outlining the increasing pressures on infrastructure across road, rail, maritime, and […]
02 Dec 2025
Photo by Kilian Murphy The UK Government published its North Sea Future Plan on 26 November 2025, confirming an end to new exploration licences whilst introducing Transitional Energy Certificates allowing limited drilling adjacent to existing fields. The plan implements government manifesto commitments to manage existing fields for their lifespan and not issue new licences to explore new fields. […]
02 Dec 2025
Photo by Gustavo Quepóns The UK Government published its revised Environmental Improvement Plan on 1 December 2025, setting out a roadmap for restoring England’s environment through ten long-term goals covering restored nature, air, water, chemicals and pesticides, waste, resources, climate change, environmental hazards, biosecurity and access to nature. The cross-government plan commits to “cleaning up our rivers, lakes […]
02 Dec 2025
Photo by Samuel Costa Melo COP30 in Belém, Brazil, elevated the ocean, bringing it closer to the heart of the global climate agenda, but the deep sea representing roughly 90% of the ocean stayed buried in the margins, with the world’s biggest natural carbon sink not receiving mention in the final decision texts. Brazil announced today at COP30 […]
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