There’s something special about Hood Hill, I tell my son Lochy as we begin climbing. It’s not just the pleasing symmetry, pointy summit and epic view. Not just that it has intriguing medieval earthworks and weird erratic boulders dumped long ago by wandering glaciers. It’s more that this hill, and the moor-edge landscape it is…
The chair of South East Water has resigned after MPs said the company was “riddled with cultural problems” and “devoid of leadership”. Chris Train, the independent non-executive chair, stepped down from the board with immediate effect on Friday. The environment, food and rural affairs committee (Efracom) had said it had a total lack of confidence…
Senate Democrats accused the Trump administration of abandoning the Environmental Protection Agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment at a congressional hearing Wednesday, slamming agency leadership over a proposal to cut its budget in half. Lee Zeldin’s appearance before the Senate environment committee was the EPA administrator’s last of three budget hearings this…
GHD named designer for $120m Guam Navy hangar; Jacobs JV to design Sydney Metro West stations; Haskoning appointed for Texas storm surge barrier; and more 30 April 2026 | News | Asia Pacific, Australia, Contracts, Global, Remediation, United States AECOM awarded USACE Baltimore District contract to deliver environmental services The US…
Conference exploring risk assessing and mitigating the impact of PFAS & emerging contaminants on the environment The agenda for Environment Analyst’s online conference Assessing, Managing and Remediating PFAS & Emerging Contaminants on 7-9 July 2026 has just been released. PFAS and emerging contaminants have become some of the most significant liabilities facing landowners, asset managers…
Core service areas support stronger market forecasts, as infrastructure and data centre demand offsets federal uncertainty 30 April 2026 | In-depth news | EIA & Planning, Infrastructure, Sustainability, United States, Water Management Summary US market is entering a phase of steadier, sustainable growth with well-established service areas contributing most to revenue…
X Register for free to receive latest news stories direct to your inbox Register Sheffield-headquartered housebuilder, MJ Gleeson, says its trading has been resilient in an update covering the 11 weeks to 24 April 2026. The firm says net reservation rates for this period were 0.88 per site per week (0.59 excluding bulk reservations) compared…
Glenn Irwin says he “enjoys and thrives” in the intense environment of the British Superbike Championship as he targets his first title. Irwin is a three-time runner-up in and will ride a Ducati for Nitrous Competitions Racing in 2026. Despite an ongoing “niggle” in his shoulder, the 36-year-old said he had a “good pre-season” as…
The findings suggest that urban waterways anywhere could become continuous biosensors, tracking biodiversity, habitat restoration outcomes, and human impacts in real time. Among the most novel results of the weekly East River sampling were genetic indicators of human food consumption, of rat and other terrestrial wildlife populations, and the discovery of newly abundant fish species,…
About a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through the strait of Hormuz, a strip of sea less than 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, before it was in effect closed by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which sent the price of oil soaring and left an estimated 20,000…
