The biggest legal claim ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution in the country has been filed at the High Court. Almost 4,000 people have signed up to the lawsuit against major poultry ...

Three-quarters of UK rivers were found to be in poor ecological health by citizen scientists who took samples from waterways across the UK. Thousands of people measured their local water quality ...

The monitoring of UK rivers hasn’t been updated since the 1970s and gives just a snapshot of the state of water quality, hampering efforts to clean it up. The UK’s four nations have similar methods ...

Drug-resistant superbugs are on the rise, prompting researchers and campaigners in the UK to call for a water system clean-up. Untreated sewage is one possible avenue for AMR's spread. And once ...

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 ...

All of the UK’s rivers are now polluted with sewage, with campaigners warning of a “toxic chemical soup” in our waters. Leading campaign group Surfers Against Sewage is calling on the government and ...

A chemical that could affect human reproduction has been found in major rivers across the UK. Researchers analysed samples from 32 rivers across the UK's four nations and found traces of ...

12:14, Fri, May 23, 2025 Updated: 12:15, Fri, May 23, 2025 High river temperatures this baking-hot spring are sparking fears for the future of the UK's freshwater fish, an environmental charity has ...

The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. At the time of writing, a large area of England is officially “in drought” and hosepipe bans are in force for more than 8m ...

Have you ever looked at a river and wondered where all the water has come from? Or where it is going to? My name is Seren and today I'm investigating the UK's longest rivers. This is the River Severn, ...