29 May 2025

Image description: Brown Wooden Gavel on Brown Wooden Table. Image by Katrin Bolovtsova / Pexels.   A German court has confirmed that major corporations with high emissions can be held liable for the impacts of their climate change contribution on communities.  This came as part of the overall ruling in the case of Peruvian farmer […]

29 May 2025

Photo description: A mixed wildflower meadow, full of purple and yellow flowers. Image by Couleur / Pixabay   Government fails to endorse a proposed Nitrogen Strategy Government ministers have stopped short of endorsing a dedicated Nitrogen Strategy during a House of Lords inquiry into nitrogen pollution. Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner and Water Minister Emma Hardy […]

29 May 2025

Image description: One of the new signs as part of the history and wildlife trail. Credit: Groundwork Yorkshire.   The latest phase of Hull’s Dynamic Drains initiative has launched along Holderness Drain in East Hull, transforming previously underused land into a linear park, expanding the city’s wildlife and history trail, and improving access to fishing. […]

22 May 2025

Image description: A winding river through a dark landscape, with the sun in the centre of the sky. Image by Pixabay.   A new study finds nearly a third of all antibiotics that people consume, equivalent to 8,500 tonnes, end up in the world’s rivers every year. Previous studies estimating environmental antibiotic pollution at global […]

22 May 2025

Image description: A protest march with people holding placards. A man’s t-shirt reads “don’t poison our water”. Image by the Climate Reality Project.   The government says it has overseen a large increase in criminal investigations into water companies for alleged breaches of environmental law. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), in […]

20 May 2025

Image: St Mawes by Philip Auld    Conservationists have expressed deep concern over the deteriorating state of ancient maerl beds off the coast of Cornwall, England. from recent dives near St Mawe, which were organised as part of the UK Maerl Forum 2025, revealed that these fragile ecosystems are now covered in dense algae – […]

15 May 2025

Image description: Plastic items littered on a beach with waves in the background.   Researchers at the Amber Centre in Trinity College have revealed “the stress” applied in making everyday products such as plastic bottles and containers that causes them to shred micro-plastic particles, ending up in the environment and bodies. When factories mould plastics […]

15 May 2025

Image description: The River Itchen, a chalk stream that runs through Hampshire, bordered by grassy banks and lined with trees. Image by Philip Enticknap.   The call for an amendment  A cross-party attempt to give chalk streams, a globally rare ecosystem, the strongest protections as irreplaceable habitats failed after all the Labour MPs on the […]