Five new research projects have launched to investigate how pollution impacts UK rivers. Freshwater ecosystems are facing multiple pressures from a cocktail of pollutants, including chemicals, ...

Tree-felling in the Amazon rainforest is partly to blame for pollution that is plaguing UK rivers such as the Wye, a new report suggests. It points the finger of blame at soy which is imported from ...

The River Ash in Hertfordshire – a chalk stream tributary of the River Lea is one of the streams surveyed as part of the GeneFlow project. Some of our most beautiful rivers in the UK are known as ...

Untreated sewage can account for about three-quarters of the bacteria found in a UK river during a rainstorm, despite claims from some water companies that storm discharges have minimal effect on ...

WHEN I visited the river Derwent in Yorkshire in March, the landscape wasn’t as I remembered it from my youth. Normally, the floodplains would be inundated with water and the whole river system feel ...

Almost all of the UK's waterways are polluted. In 2022, a House of Commons Committee report on the state of UK rivers concluded that no river in England was free from chemical contamination. Only 14% ...

Cognizant Ocean has developed a multi-pronged system including satellites, drones, IoT sensors and citizen science to clean up the UK’s rivers. UK rivers are in poor health. From plastic bottles, ...

Google has begun adding UK rivers and canals to its Maps service. The search engine giant is also incorporating details of the country's locks, bridges and towpaths in a bid to encourage users to ...

'Citizen scientist' Pat Stirling and others have been monitoring pollution levels on the River Wye. On the banks of the River Wye on the border between England and Wales, Pat Stirling flings a plastic ...

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