Environment Agency appoints regulator to address East West Rail delays including Aylesbury Vale issues

The Environment Agency has this week appointed a regulator to speed up the East West Rail project – but there is still no news on when Winslow station might open. The new ‘lead environmental regulator’ will coordinate streamlined, joined-up advice from all relevant regulators to save the developer dealing with a “merry-go-round” of overlapping environmental…

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Create hedgehog havens – and seven other ways to help our prickly friends | Environment

With stumpy, speedy legs, questing snouts and a fierce quiver of needles, hedgehogs are enchantingly strange, like fantasy creatures from a medieval bestiary. “It’s the nation’s favourite wild animal – every time there’s a vote or a poll, the hedgehog wins,” says ecologist Hugh Warwick, AKA “Hedgehog Hugh”, author of the Cull of the Wild…

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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life | Native Americans

They call this land the Laue. In the late 1800s, part of these 200 acres of grassland inside the Quapaw Nation were allotted to tribal citizen Charley Quapaw Blackhawk. After forcing dozens of tribes into Indian territory before the civil war, the US government then parceled out reservations and property to individual members. It was…

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Punjab pushes for cleaner textile clusters

CHANDIGARH – India’s Punjab region is pitching its dyeing and finishing sector as a hub for sustainable, high‑quality processing as it courts international investment at last week’s Progressive Punjab Investors’ Summit (PPIS) 2026. The state’s industry and commerce minister, Sanjeev Arora, told delegates at last week’s event the regional government would “leave no stone unturned”…

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Scores of illegal sewage spills every day as worst areas revealed

Scores of illegal sewage spills into rivers and the sea took place across England on average every day last year, a Times investigation has found. Documents, data, residents’ accounts, video and analysis show a widespread picture of companies illegally breaching permits regulating sewage spills from about 2,500 outfalls. The findings led regulators to warn that…

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War, mining and disinformation threaten fundamental right to healthy environment: UN expert Astrid Puentes Riaño

Two years into her mandate, the UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment, tells Geneva Solutions about the right’s emerging threats from wars, the latest wave of mining, and misinformation. Recognised by an overwhelming majority of countries at the United Nations General Assembly in 2022, the right to a healthy environment emerged…

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