As glaciers around the world recede rapidly owing to global warming, some communities are facing a new problem: the sudden disappearance of their rivers. River…
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World will lose 10% of glacier ice even if it hits climate targets
A tenth of the world’s mountain glacier ice will have melted by the middle of this century even if humanity meets the goals of the…
View More World will lose 10% of glacier ice even if it hits climate targetsRaw sewage breaches in UK rivers 10 times greater than watchdog estimates
The scale of water companies illegally discharging sewage is 10 times greater than the Environment Agency (EA) estimates, MPs have been told. Peter Hammond, former…
View More Raw sewage breaches in UK rivers 10 times greater than watchdog estimatesSewage island: how Britain spews its waste into the sea
The pandemic has not been the only crisis we’ve been wading through over the past 12 months: 2020 was a banner year in much of…
View More Sewage island: how Britain spews its waste into the seaWater firms discharged raw sewage into English waters 400,000 times last year
Water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers and coastal waters in England more than 400,000 times last year, Environment Agency (EA) data has revealed. Untreated…
View More Water firms discharged raw sewage into English waters 400,000 times last year‘It looks like snow’: how Australia plans to fix the ‘horrifying’ blight of expanded polystyrene
On a two-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River east of Melbourne’s CBD a few years ago, volunteers were gathering rubbish from the banks and reeds.…
View More ‘It looks like snow’: how Australia plans to fix the ‘horrifying’ blight of expanded polystyreneAI reveals 1,000 ‘dark discharges’ of untreated sewage in England
Nearly 1,000 “dark discharges” of untreated sewage from two water company treatment plants in England have been detected by scientists using artificial intelligence to map…
View More AI reveals 1,000 ‘dark discharges’ of untreated sewage in EnglandCall of the rewild: releasing Britain’s rivers to ease flooding
For many of us across the UK it has felt like another wet winter; yet again homes have flooded and politicians are under pressure to…
View More Call of the rewild: releasing Britain’s rivers to ease floodingVery few of world’s rivers undamaged by humanity, study finds
Rivers in which fish populations have escaped serious damage from human activities make up just 14% of the world’s river basin area, according to the…
View More Very few of world’s rivers undamaged by humanity, study findsRevealed: no penalties issued under ‘useless’ English farm pollution laws
Campaigners have called legislation designed to reduce water pollution caused by agriculture in England “useless” as data reveals there have been no prosecutions or fines…
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