30 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Sander Crombach None of London’s rivers is currently rated as being in good condition. That is the backdrop to a ten-year plan launched by the Mayor of London to clean up the capital’s waterways, backed by £1.8 billion of partner funding over five years. The Clean Rivers and Waterways plan brings together […]
30 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Md. Hasanuzzaman Himel As drought spreads across half of England, the National Farmers’ Union has called for changes to abstraction rules and planning to protect food production. Low river flows have driven 1,506 restrictions on abstraction licences, and high irrigation demand is rapidly depleting farm reservoirs, leaving the union warning that growers […]
30 Jul 2026
Photo credit: Ivan Bandura Among the winners of Ofwat’s latest innovation competition is a technology that cleans wastewater using water fleas. Daphne Water Solutions, a University of Birmingham spin-out, is one of 20 finalists in the £7.5 million Water Discovery Challenge, each awarded up to £100,000 in seed funding and mentoring to test their […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock Deprivation in coastal communities has reached a point where it can no longer be dismissed as a hidden or unknown problem, MPs argued in a Westminster Hall debate, as members from across the parties pressed the government to recognise the specific pressures facing seaside and island communities in how it measures […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock Defra has rejected the central recommendations of a cross-party committee report on rebuilding trust with the fishing industry, including calls for a Sea Use Framework and new regional forums giving fishers a formal role in policy. The rejection came in the government’s formal response to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The Crown Estate has launched a competitive tender to find a new developer for the Morgan offshore wind site in the Irish Sea, months after the previous developers abandoned the project. The up to 1.5GW site, which could power around 1.5 million homes, was returned to the market on 24 July […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock At least half a million more people in the UK will be exposed to coastal flooding risk by 2100, a 25 per cent increase on today, according to the first study to quantify the scale of the UK population at risk under long-term sea-level rise. The research, led by the Met Office […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The company that owns the vessel involved in the River Tyne nurdle spill has admitted its response has fallen short of what the community expected, as the North East mayor presses the firms responsible to fund what she has called the worst nurdle pollution incident in Europe. Up to 25 tonnes […]
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