03 Mar 2026
Photo by Yuriy Kostin A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has discovered what is believed to be the world’s largest known coral colony on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – a structure stretching approximately 111 metres and covering nearly 4,000 square metres, roughly the size of a football pitch. The coral was found late last […]
03 Mar 2026
Photo by Amy Asher Volunteers rescuing marine mammals entangled in discarded plastic waste along Yorkshire’s coast attended 41 call-outs in 2025, more than four times the nine recorded in 2019, the BBC reports, in a trend that rescue workers say reflects a worsening crisis of beach litter left behind by holidaymakers. Chris Cook, an area […]
03 Mar 2026
Photo by Jan Tang Scientists have discovered that the annual process by which Emperor penguins shed and regrow their feathers may be killing thousands of birds, as the collapse of Antarctic sea ice strips them of the stable platforms they depend on to survive it. The findings, published in Communications Earth & Environment, emerged from an […]
26 Feb 2026
Image description: Rain drops falling into a shallow pool of water. Photo by reza shayestehpour on Unsplash Despite the South West region experiencing rainfall 62% higher than the national average in 2025, South West Water (SWW) has announced a 17% reduction in storm overflow use and a 25% in cut spill duration over the past […]
26 Feb 2026
Image description: aerial view of a sewage treatment plan. Image by Patrick Federi on Unsplash Southern Water has completed more than 1,000 actions prompted by an Ofwat investigation in 2019. The actions included operational and compliance improvements across 293 wastewater treatment works, £126 million in penalties and redress, organisational changes, and routine inspections as part of its standard operations. Ofwat says water firm must now go further Following […]
26 Feb 2026
Image description: Water jets from a fountain suspended in the air. Image by Geoffrey Crofte on Unsplash A new factual drama from Channel 4, Dirty Business, charts the real stories of the pollution of England’s waterways since the water companies were privatised in 1989. To mark the first episode airing this week, Channel 4 unveiled a dramatic new art installation, ‘a fountain of filth’, on London’s South Bank. […]
26 Feb 2026
Image description: A brown sewage outflow pipe is embedded in rocks, with water gushing into a body of water. Image by Jacob Antony on Unsplash Research shared exclusively with the New Statesman reveals Thames Water illegally polluted waterways with raw sewage at least 8,499 times between 2021 and 2025, showing five years of new regulations have failed to address the company’s environmental degradation, according to the […]
26 Feb 2026
Image description: A dead fish lies on its side on the rocky bed of a river. Image by Oguzhan Aydin from Pixabay. Yorkshire Water has been fined more than £700,000 for repeatedly releasing sewage into a country park stream in Derbyshire, the Environment Agency (EA) said. Yorkshire Water was issued with the penalty after pleading guilty to three offences of sewage pollution in Pools Brook country park […]
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