The balance sheet: how boosting biodiversity on a Norfolk estate has brought financial returns

‘Grave doubts’: Government faces legal threat over net zero row back

Government threatened with legal action if it fails to show how the UK will meet its net zero targets...

Furniture companies call for removal of harmful chemicals from supply chain

Scottish government admits failing climate change duties

Housing must deliver nutrient neutrality under current legal framework

‘Riddled roughshod’: Waste sector ‘confused’ after Sunak scraps bins policy that never existed

Banned pesticides found at ‘worrying levels’ levels in English rivers

Prime minister confirms new ‘spatial plan for infrastructure’

Lords slate government over ‘haphazard’ housing and environment policies

Rishi’s rollbacks: What exactly did Sunak scrap?

HSE consults on whether reproductive toxin should be restricted in the UK

Sunak’s net zero delays ‘likely’ to put the UK at risk of missing its legal targets

Analysis

Enforcement by algorithm?: The potential role of AI in environmental regulation – and the ethical dilemmas it poses

WATCH NOW > From poppies to profits: how a Norfolk estate is being financially rewarded for growing wildflower meadows

‘Slap in the face’: Natural England reeling after nutrient neutrality bombshell, insiders reveal

Why a judicial review of sea fishing licences underlines the weight being given to environmental conservation

The Environment Act powers that have yet to come into force

Robobotanists and eDNA: What impact will AI have on the environment sector?

‘A constitutional question:’ Is the government kicking its air quality commitments to the kerb?

What does the nutrient neutrality bonfire mean for the EA and water companies?

Going guerilla: Have rogue rewilders ‘set lynx back 20 years?’

Where have the nutrient neutrality housing logjam statistics come from?

The ENDS Natural Capital Briefing: What can you sell, who’s buying, and what are the risks?

‘Flying by the seats of our pants’: Why did two men die at one of England’s most highly regulated environmental hazard sites?

The context: nutrient neutrality

MAPPED: The 74 authorities affected by Natural England nutrient neutrality advice

Where have the nutrient neutrality housing logjam statistics come from?

What does the nutrient neutrality bonfire mean for the EA and water companies?

Nutrient neutrality: Labour voices ‘serious concerns’ but says ‘review’ of rules needed

How one council created its own phosphates credit scheme, and how a developer negotiated the system

‘Defective’ nutrient neutrality ‘red tape’ to be cut

‘Ignore government agency views of nutrient impact on protected sites’, says draft government law

THE BUSINESS OF ... WILDFLOWERS

From poppies to profits:
How a Norfolk estate is
being financially rewarded
for growing wildflowers

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WATCH ENDS’ FILM NOW - WILDERNESS: The wounding of England’s last great wild spaces

Wildnerness: read more

WATCH THE TRAILER > WILDERNESS: The wounding of England's last great wild spaces

Paid to Fail: How the taxpayer bankrolled the decline of England’s last great wild spaces

Ep X: WILDERNESS: The Wounding of England's Last Great Wild Spaces

‘Serious concern’: One Natural England employee assigned to SSSI assessments for every 73 sites, figures reveal

Ranked: The national parks where the most money is spent on failing green farming schemes

England’s wounded wildlife sites: the latest data on the health of SSSIs, mapped

£330m poured into failing green farming schemes, ENDS investigation reveals

POWER LIST 2023

Meet the UK’s 100
most influential
environmental
professionals

Are you on the list?

The 2023 ENDS Power List names the 100 UK environmental professionals who have made the greatest impact in the past two years – as nominated by their colleagues, clients and competitors.

Power List

Power List 2023: the UK’s 100 most influential environmental professionals

Power List 2023: The most influential environmental consultants

Power List 2023: The most impactful environmental lawyers

Power List 2023: The campaigners who are shaping green policy and legislation

Power List 2023: 10 unsung heroes making a difference

Power List 2023: The private sector pioneers

Power List 2023: The environmental professionals leading the way in the public sector

ECO CHAMBER podcast

ECO CHAMBER PODCAST: No LURB lost, junked food policy, and hen harriers flying high

EP 57: Watchdog bares its teeth, winds of change, and Europe's most wanted predator

Ep 56: Regression row, LIAR-gate, and Rishi rearranges the deck chairs

Ep 55: Gove's nitrates war, Scotland's hare cull and England's water woes

Ep 54: Pollution penalty shootout, water voles let loose, PLUS international climate broker on finding consensus

Ep 53: Rest in Greenpeace, nutrient numbers unpacked, and Starmer drama over clean air

SPECIAL REPORT

Is your city a
green oasis...
...or a grey desert?

How much green space do residents have access to?

Are your neighbours eco-warriors, or eco-laggards?

Explore the GREEN CITIES INDEX to find out

Explore interactive data showing English cities’ performance against more than 30 environmental indicators in five categories: public realm; green behaviour; air quality; climate; and water quality.

SPECIAL REPORT Green Cities Index

The ENDS Green Cities Index 2023: Overall rankings

Which is the cleanest city in England? Which scores best for air pollution? Where are the most eco-friendly residents? View the Green Cities Index in full to find out.

‘Fantastic achievement’: Oxford named England’s greenest city

Green Cities Index 2023: England’s 10 greenest cities revealed

Urban wetlands and subterranean ‘super bins’: four pioneering projects in the spotlight

Green Cities Index 2023: Global cities going green

Green Cities Index 2023: Get the latest data on your city

Interviews

Interview: The new IPCC chair on science, politics, and knowing when to hold back

Interview: Rosamund Kissi-Debrah on her disappointment in Sir Keir Starmer

INTERVIEW: The interim EA chief on the ‘toxic’ sewage debate and his one great fear

INTERVIEW: Lord Deben on climate immigration to come and how the Environment Agency lost power

Interview: The EFRA committee chair on ‘prickly’ Coffey and Labour’s play for the rural vote

Interview: London’s deputy mayor on why City Hall won’t be cowed by ULEZ backlash

Case studies

How government agencies are delivering a scheme to try and clean up one of England’s most metal polluted rivers

How a joint-venture secured the first planning consent for a UK carbon capture project

How a first-of-its-kind tidal energy project gained planning permission

How a developer created its first ‘biodiversity bank’ ahead of net gain requirements

How one council programmed wind and solar power into its local plan

How Network Rail secured the first organisational licence for great crested newts

'It's like writing a book': How a seaweed farm successfully won millions of pounds of BEIS funding

The debrief: How a farmer-led project transformed its business to sell biodiversity, carbon, and nutrient neutrality credits

How a Cornish project may provide a solution to disruption fears as the UK phases out gas boilers

The Debrief: How do you solve a problem like Japanese knotweed?

No LURB lost,
junked food policy, and
hen harriers flying high

The ECO Chamber, Episode 58

Data & insight

MAPPED: The UK sites where PFAS has been detected

MAPPED: The storm overflows that spilled sewage 301,091 times in 2022

MAPPED: How clean is the water at England’s beaches and other bathing areas?

MAPPED: The sites where Higher Level Stewardship funding has been paid out

Green Cities Index 2023: York

Green Cities Index 2023: Worthing

AN ENDS REPORT FILM

SEVERN: The poisoning
of Britain’s Amazon

Now available to view

Video

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WATCH > ‘The estuary has changed’ | SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

WATCH > ‘Such a sad state of affairs’ | SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain’s Amazon

Legal comment

The (legal) lessons to be drawn from the failed High Court ULEZ challenge

Why developer CG Fry’s nutrient neutrality challenge is unlikely to succeed on appeal - for now

Why the dismissal of ClientEarth’s case against Shell will have ramifications for other NGOs seeking to change corporate behaviour

Why a court ruling on when Japanese Knotweed damages are payable will have ripple effects

Why the case against Bristol Airport’s expansion is a bellwether for the future of climate litigation

Legal comment: Why Dartmoor’s wild camping case will have wider implications for the countryside

SPECIAL REPORTS

RISK REVIEW: Key policy changes and deadlines, PLUS standard rules shake-up, chemicals divergence and more

The policy changes and compliance deadlines that need to be on your radar in the next three months

The ENDS Briefing: biodiversity net gain

Why Exeter has topped the ENDS Clean Cities Index 2022

Power List 2022: the UK's 100 most influential environmental professionals

Environment Bill briefing

SEARCH: The ENDS Report Fines Monitor live table →

Click through to view a live table containing details of tens of millions of pounds of financial penalties issued by regulators in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for breaches of environmental regulations

ENDS TV

Toxic timebomb:
Tackling the UK’s
PFAS problem

Watch on demand

Join this webinar, where we examine the increasing focus on the environmental impacts of PFAS in the UK, and its implications. We discuss how firms in the US have been exposed to huge liabilities for causing PFAS pollution, explore the tighter regulatory controls that could be put in place in the UK, and what this means for environmental professionals