Water management

A council has proposed dipping into a £2.2m housing grant to fund the mitigation of excess levels of phosphates in an EU-protected site, in a bid to unlock more than 1,000 homes stuck in its planning system

A waterway described as 'an open sewer' would be the first river to be designated as a UK bathing water, should an application from a local campaign group be approved by the government

The Environment Agency has committed £300,000 to the next phase of a chalk stream improvement project, the largest partnership project to date

The UK must learn to adapt to the risks from flooding caused by climate change in the future rather than 'building its way out of a crisis', according to Emma Howard Boyd, the chair of the Environment Agency.

The environment minister Rebecca Pow has announced the creation of a new EU-protected area for seabirds along a vast stretch of the south coast of England and has extended another in the north east

More than 1,600 permitted sites in England have not been inspected for at least three years, according to an analysis of Environment Agency data, while other sites have faced multiple checks in a single year

Over the past 11 years, Hugo Tagholm has transformed the charity he heads from 'rickety organisation' to 'one of the leading and most authentic voices of the ocean'. But his fight to stop water companies polluting the coast is far from over

10 of the biggest stories from the past week: Political parties’ green pledges, Council takes on EA over damaged rivers, Weetabix fined £140,000 and more

SPECIAL REPORT: 15% of species are formally classified as at risk of extinction in Great Britain. ENDS hears from those on the frontline of efforts to reverse nature's decline

A number of critical bills and fledgling environmental policies have been left in limbo as a result of the general election, casting future legislation into doubt. But above all, business wants the next government to make the Environment Bill a post election priority, finds Rachel Salvidge