12 Oct 2021
City Doubles Size of Largest Green Infrastructure Program in Nation, Making NYC More Resilient to Global Warming Specially designed curbside rain gardens will absorb millions of gallons of stormwater each time it rains, beautifying neighborhoods, improving the health of our waterways and making the city more resilient in the face of global warming NEW YORK—Mayor […]
05 Oct 2021
From Water UK Water industry calls for a wave of bathing rivers as part of a new national plan to improve the health of English rivers Water companies want government, agriculture, and other sectors to come together and help create a series of bathing rivers across the country Research shows the many sources of pollution […]
28 Sep 2021
From European Environment Agency European water bodies suffer from agricultural pollution as well as pollution from insufficiently treated waste water from cities, industry and scattered dwellings, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Artificial barriers, together with navigation, abstraction, aquaculture, and invasive alien species cause additional pressures. However, solutions to tackle the problems […]
28 Sep 2021
New study estimates there is at least ten times more plastic in the Atlantic than previously thought Posted: 19 August 2020 NOC ‘The mass of ‘invisible’ microplastics found in the upper waters of the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 12–21 million tonnes, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications. Significantly, this figure is only for three […]
21 Sep 2021
21 nature organisations are calling for urgent measures to help lift England’s rivers, lakes and streams from the bottom of the water quality league table, and warn that drastic action is needed to restore wildlife habitat. Every freshwater body in England currently fails chemical standards and only 16% are classed in good ecological health compared […]
21 Sep 2021
New report from RSPB, rivers Trust and National Trust reveals pollution is biggest threat to wildlife on our waterways Beautiful, freshwater habitats that are home to an abundance of wildlife are being devastated by agricultural waste, raw sewage and pollution from abandoned mines, according to a new report According to an online YouGov poll, 88% of those in England, Wales and Northern Ireland […]
14 Sep 2021
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) launched its flagship week of the Million Mile Clean from 11th May – 23rd May. As part of this event, volunteers took part in a national brand audit, an important citizen science programme to drive corporate behaviour change. As the UK’s biggest coordinated beach clean event, over 50,000 volunteers took part […]
14 Sep 2021
From the Guardian One of the first complaints lodged with the post-Brexit environmental watchdog accuses the government and Ofwat of failing to enforce the law to stop water companies from routinely discharging raw sewage into rivers. The office for environmental protection (OEP) is being asked to investigate why water companies have been able to continually fail […]
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