14 Jul 2026
A new fund for the recovery of Wales’s marine and coastal ecosystems has opened a call for ideas, asking organisations across the country what work is needed and where the gaps lie. MARINE Fund Cymru, which stands for Marine Resilience and Improvement of Natural Ecosystems, is managed by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action and […]
11 Jun 2026
Photo by Iain on Unsplash Welsh Water is facing a £44.7 million enforcement package from Ofwat even as it commits £617 million to infrastructure spending in its first year of an ambitious transformation programme. The regulator formalised the package in June, following an investigation into wastewater asset failures, requiring the company to fund measures […]
28 May 2026
Image description: John Deere tractor towing a slurry tanker. Photo by Mirko Fabian on Unsplash Years of river protection effort under review The Welsh government has signalled it will unwind the ban on spreading muck between mid-October and January, a rule introduced specifically to prevent slurry being washed into rivers during winter rainfall. Cabinet Minister for Rural Resilience […]
28 May 2026
Image description: A winding river flows through a forested valley in autumn. The image was taken in Symonds Yat, Ross-on-Wye, UK. Photo by Rob Wingate on Unsplash A rights of nature approach The Wye’s whole catchment has been formally acknowledged as a living ecosystem in what supporters call a UK first. Launched at the Hay-on-Wye literary […]
26 May 2026
Photo by Markus Freise Scientists at Bangor University and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have completed a landmark restoration project to return native oysters to Conwy Bay, the first scheme of its kind in North Wales and a significant step in the fight to save a species that has lost more than 95% of its […]
30 Apr 2026
Photo by Thomas Iversen on Unsplash The High Court has begun hearing on of the UK’s biggest ever environmental pollution claims, concerning the rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk. Avara Foods, one of the UK’s largest chicken producers, and Welsh Water stand accused of negligence, causing private and public nuisance and even trespass, in a […]
09 Apr 2026
Image description: Two people sat at a desk working out a problem on a piece of paper. There are two laptops, pens and paper on the work surface. Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash. Ofwat has written to the renumeration committee chairs of all Welsh and English water companies, reminding them of the new […]
31 Mar 2026
Photo by Waldemar Brandt The UK government has announced a grant of up to £64m to develop Port Talbot into the first port in the Celtic Sea specifically designed to support floating offshore wind. The funding will enable Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest port operator, to complete the essential design and engineering work needed […]
