23 Oct 2025
Image description: Wetlands in Anna Bay, Australia. Image by Andrew Coates, Unsplash New research has been published documenting the economics of floating wetlands around the world, finding they were a cost-effective way to improve water quality. The Guardian recently profiled the co-authors of the study, which looked at the use of artificial floating wetlands […]
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: 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 […]
21 Aug 2025
Image description: Fishermen from Qarmat Ali with the Nahr Bin Umar oilfield across the Shatt al-Arab River. They complain that due to pollution and the river’s increased salinity, they often pull in dead fish. Image by Daniela Sala / The Guardian. The Guardian recently reported on the decline of Iraq’s Hawizeh wetlands, part of […]
17 Apr 2025
Image description: A beaver sitting in water. Image by Matej Bizjak / Pexels. An opinion piece by farmer and owner of Argaty Red Kites, Tom Bowser, has called out NatureScot for stalling beaver reintroductions, declaring “something is wrong at the heart of NatureScot”. Tom Bowser questions the Nature Agency’s ongoing blocking of beaver releases, […]
20 Mar 2025
A new report commissioned by RSA Insurance, an Intact company, and The Wildlife Trusts shows that every £1 invested in natural flood management (NFM) is expected to deliver £10 of benefits over 30 years. The report, Assessing the multiple benefits of Natural Flood Management, was released after it transpired that insurers paid out £585M in […]
21 Feb 2024
Southern Water has unveiled plans for a large wetland next to its treatment works in Staplefield. The wetland, is the size of two football pitches (3.2 acres) and will help treatment at the site and is a nature-based solution to reducing Phosphorus into nearby watercourses. How does the wetland work? Wetlands provide another way of […]
19 Feb 2024
A Devon nature reserve is due to be significantly expanded thanks to a unique piece of coastal engineering, which has seen 50 hectares of internationally important new wetland habitat created. The huge climate change adaptation project led by the Environment Agency reconnected the River Otter with its historic estuarine floodplain – helping protect properties but […]
