The Environment and Climate Change Committee has published its report, ‘Surviving drought: reclaim the rain’, which calls for urgent action to improve drought planning and monitoring, invest in water storage infrastructure at all scales, reform abstraction licensing to increase flexibility, and engage in a whole of society approach to reducing water demand. Source link
During an address Andrew Muir also reaffirmed his strong support for an Independent Environmental Protection Agency. Source link
A new report that will feed into the upcoming UK Climate Change Assessment, supported by Loughborough University expertise, has warned that episodes containing multiple high-intensity weather events will increase. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) is the Government’s statutory, evidence‑based review of how climate change is affecting the UK today and how it is…
A man has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into large-scale, illegal dumping of waste at multiple sites across England, including the notorious Bolton House Road in Wigan. Officers from West Midlands Police, working in support of the Environment Agency, secured the arrest of the suspect. A 58-year-old male from the Birmingham area was…
Leaders from Onterris, Woodard & Curran and WSP analyse the new funding landscape, data centre boom and reframing of sustainability 20 May 2026 | News | Business, Digital, Insight, Sustainability, United States Summary State-level capital and public-private partnerships more common for infrastructure projects. Data…
The introduction of the EU’s carbon border tax, uncertainties surrounding market coupling, and negative prices have brought about instability, which, amplified by ongoing wars, has fundamentally changed the environment for financing renewable energy projects, according to participants at Belgrade Energy Forum 2026 (BEF 2026). Still, representatives of international financial institutions, commercial banks, and investment funds…
Progress on meeting the Environment Act’s target for the restoration or creation of wildlife-rich habitats is ‘consistent with expectations’, Natural England has said, with the cumulative total of reported delivery increasing from 38,877 hectares last year to 77,638 hectares. Source link
More than 40 people, including Greenpeace UK’s programme director, Amy Cameron, have been arrested after a protest outside pesticide company Syngenta’s Yorkshire headquarters. A number of the activists locked themselves on to 15 blue pesticide barrels outside the headquarters, blocking the gates and leading to the temporary closure of the local A62. Activists had transformed…
‘A noisy river is a healthy river,” says Ruth Needham of the Trent Rivers Trust (TRT). The Mease in the Midlands must be in fine fettle, then, as it gurgles merrily along. Sunlight glints off riffles in the water and shoals of fry dart past. Needham whips out her phone to video the tiny fish:…
Sales of petrol and diesel models will never return to 2017 peak, International Energy Agency forecasts Source link
