25 Sep 2025

Image description: A metal watering can pouring out water. Photo by David Ballew on Unsplash   Despite reservoirs in Yorkshire receiving record rainfall and seeing the largest weekly rise in over 30 years, Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban could last into the new year. Dave Kaye, director of water for Yorkshire Water, said that while reservoir […]

25 Sep 2025

Image description: wild swimmers doing front crawl in a body of water. Photo by Johanna Steppan on Unsplash   A new report from the London assembly has recommended ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, to accelerate a clean-up of the capital’s waterways and increase nature access. The investigation, titled “Swimmable rivers: […]

25 Sep 2025

Image description: Housing construction in progress. Photo by Ernie Journeys on Unsplash   The UK government has announced new measures aimed at improving water efficiency in new homes, a move expected to reduce household bills and support the construction of new housing developments. According to a statement from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural […]

25 Sep 2025

Image description: cars stuck in traffic.Photo by Nabeel Syed on Unsplash   After six years, Brighton’s Wild Park rainscape, formed of a vegetated swale linked to four planted basins, is almost completed. The Aquifer Project, formed in 2016 to protect the chalk aquifer, secured £1.79m funding from National Highways to build the rainscape with the […]

18 Sep 2025

 Image description: Aerial view of a green combine harvester harvesting a field. Image by Scott Goodwill on Unsplash   An investigation carried out by the Guardian and Watershed Investigations revealed more than 750,000 tonnes of liquid from landfills are mixed with sewage at water treatment works and spread on farmland across England each year. Production […]

18 Sep 2025

Image description: ancient Clapper bridge over the river Avon in Dartmoor national park. Image by  Ben Wrigley on Unsplash   River campaigners launch new report identifying key threats Campaign for National Parks and the Rivers Trust have released their ‘Rivers at Risk‘ report, outlining the threats rivers in National Parks face and demanding urgent action […]

18 Sep 2025

Image description: Aerial shot of the Amazon river. Severe drought hit the Amazon basin, peaking from July to September. Photo by Ivars Utināns on Unsplash   Two thirds of the world’s river basins experienced abnormal conditions last year as the climate crisis drove extremes of drought and flood, sometimes both in the same region. In […]

18 Sep 2025

Image description: an image of a caddisfly, which look similar to moths and have hairy wings, against a white background. Image by Natural Resources Wales. A species of caddisfly, thought to have been extinct in Britain since 2016, has been found during a species survey at Cors Goch, Anglesey. How the species was discovered Natur […]