The Environment Agency is investigating a potential breach of East Midlands Airport’s environmental water discharge permit, the airport has confirmed, amidst claims from campaigners that the agency has failed to properly investigate historical chemical spills from the site

Proposals in the government’s Nature Recovery Green Paper risk the 'over-simplification' of rules around habitats protection, potentially leading to 'more legal challenges, greater costs, and weaker protection for nature, NGO coalition Wildlife and Countryside Link has warned

The new biodiversity net gain requirement on developments, due to come into effect from next year, should be applied 'as broadly as possible', with exemptions kept to a minimum, the Law Society has said

An industrial cleaning company that polluted a lake with cyanide, causing a major fish kill, has reached an out-of-court settlement with a Derbyshire angling club

South American weevils have been released in England in an attempt to control the spread of floating pennywort, an invasive non-native species plant

The UK capital’s ‘ageing water supply system’ puts it in a precarious position as the intensity and frequency of droughts increase around the world, according to a new report