The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on its proposals for a new £16 million flood alleviation scheme for Tadcaster. 

Plans for the future of water supplies in the South East, including a giant reservoir between Abingdon, Steventon and East Hanney, have been strongly criticised by Vale of White Horse District Council.

Renewed efforts by the water companies who make up the Water Resources South East water group to move forward with proposals for a giant reservoir near Abingdon are again facing opposition in Oxfordshire. 

The Climate Change Committee is warning that achieving the Government goal’s of a reliable, secure and decarbonised power system by 2035 is possible – but not at the current pace of delivery.

New research from the UK Met Office shows that extreme rainfall events could be four times as frequent by 2080 compared to the 1980s.

England had its driest February in 30 years according to the latest provisional figures from the Met Office, as meteorological winter concluded with a dry and mild month for most. 

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a new consultation on draft guidance to help businesses co-operate on environmental sustainability.

A new study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a corresponding rapid acceleration of sea level rise, may be imminent if global temperature change cannot be stabilized below 1.8°C, relative to the preindustrial levels.

South West Water has launched a public consultation on its draft Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) setting out its long-term plans over the next 25 years to maintain secure and sustainable water supplies to customers.

Natural England has today announced the launch of six projects across England that will receive funding to research how nature-rich woodlands, grasslands, wetlands and urban habitats take up carbon.