A prized and protected river has been found 'bulldozed, straightened and reprofiled into a sterile canal, with all bankside and riverside habitats completely obliterated', according to the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust... Read more
On 31 December, the Brexit transition period will end and the UK will leave the customs union and single market. The stage is set for the UK to diverge from European environmental regulations, but are some rules more at risk than others?
Updated regularly: ENDS’ pollution tracker logs some of the worst pollution incidents taking place across the UK. The latest update includes news of a mystery fish kill, sewage floods and a catastrophic peat landslide
The Internal Market Bill could undermine devolution and pave the way for a ‘race to the bottom’ on green standards, fear experts. David Burrows reports
A clean up of historic water pollution from metal mines is entering a new phase, but there is much work to do to reduce the damage to an estimated 1,500km rivers in England alone. Catherine Early reports
The Environment Bill’s biodiversity net gain measure will create a market worth hundreds of millions of pounds annually, with the government’s goal of building 300,000 homes a year likely to necessitate the creation of thousands of hectares of offsets. Here’s how net gain is about to become big business
‘Rich remoaner lawyer’ Jolyon Maugham QC, founder of the Good Law Project and bête noire to the government, talks to ENDS about using litigation to influence politics, suing water firms for sewage pollution and being savaged on Twitter
Concerns over nitrate pollution from new housing developments have blocked planning consents for thousands of homes, but the purchase of a farm on the Isle of Wight offers a solution to the problem while creating new habitats
The small print of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending review included a number of green measures, including a funding boost for DEFRA and further details on how the government intends to fund the prime minister’s recently announced 10-point climate plan. Here’s what you need to know
The UK will drop out of the EU’s emissions trading scheme at the end of the year and details of a UK replacement are scant. The clock is ticking, reports David Burrows
Will nature recovery networks revive the UK’s dwindling natural habitats or are they just another example of weak and underfunded ambition? James Fair reports
Government amendments to the environment bill have brought the independence of the Office for Environmental Protection into question before its work has even begun. Catherine Early reports
The ‘spy cops bill’ gives the agency powers to legally undertake torture, murder and rape in pursuit of criminals, but would it go that far? Adam Branson reports
Barely a quarter of the sites of special scientific interest in national parks are in good condition, a freedom of information request has revealed
Reducing the UK’s annual contribution to climate change by 68% compared to 1990 by 2030 would be a 'decisive commitment to a net zero emissions trajectory', according to the Climate Change Committee
Hundreds of miles of English roadsides are to be converted into wildflower meadows after Highways England adopted a new policy aimed at improving ecosystems and saving money
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The proportion of England’s rivers in good ecological health has plateaued at 14%, according to official classifications published last week, while the status of more than 100 has been rated as ‘bad’. Use ENDS’ map to view the locations of these water bodies
A group of banned toxic chemicals made decades ago are today harming orcas, porpoises and kestrels. Rachel Salvidge investigates an industrial legacy that refuses to die
The polluted state of the river Wye hit the headlines this year. Campaigners say chicken farms are to blame and NRW has launched a review but is it likely to satisfy anyone? Adam Branson investigates
UPDATED: Details of nearly 30 new enforcement undertakings with a value of more than £1.5m have been added to the ENDS Report enforcement undertakings database, as the use of the civil sanction as a tool to deal with environmental offences continues to grow. Click through for the full list, compiled by ENDS
There are some regulations that the Environment Agency has stopped enforcing entirely – does this reflect a change in the regulator’s approach to enforcement or a lack of capacity to tackle serious environmental crimes?
The poor condition of England’s waterways and the important habitats they provide has been making headlines recently, but a project in Hampshire shows how they can be successfully restored to meet environmental targets
The provision of a series of new green spaces has delivered a statistically significant drop in visitors to a special protection area over a period when housing numbers have grown by 13%
A major exercise to collect information on more than 2,000 trees has armed Greater Manchester councils with the hard data needed to win green funding
An expanded district heat scheme deriving warmth from an unlikely source is helping more than a thousand homes cut their energy bills in north London
Biffa combined its in-house knowledge with expertise from across Europe to build the UK’s first recycling plant turning PET back into food-grade PET
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