Coverage of the Chief Medical Officer's air pollution annual report
Today we are looking at media coverage of the Chief Medical Officer's annual report on air pollution.
Updated: Thu Dec 08 2022
Future Farming Podcast: Young people in farming
To celebrate National Young Farmers' Week 2022, Matt McGuire welcomes 3 up-and-coming young people in farming to the podcast. Charlie Beaty, Ed Dungait and Charlotte Garbutt discuss how to get started in farming, the importance of education and the range of roles in agriculture. They also discuss the benefits new talent can bring to the sector.
Updated: Wed Dec 07 2022
Weevils to the rescue! How a beetle could help win the fight against invasive plants
Trevor Renals is the senior technical advisor on invasive species for the Environment Agency. He started his career working on Japanese knotweed management in his native Cornwall, which led to an interest in biological control solutions, using co-evolved natural ...
Updated: Wed Dec 07 2022
Food supply and food security
Today we are looking at media coverage of NFU comments on food supply and security.
Updated: Tue Dec 06 2022
National Tree Week in the media
Today we are looking at media coverage of our National Tree Week announcements.
Updated: Mon Dec 05 2022
UK pushes for ambitious and effective global plastic treaty at first negotiations meeting
Today we are looking at media coverage of the UK attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meeting to negotiate the new legally binding treaty on plastic pollution that was held in Uruguay.
Updated: Mon Dec 05 2022
Bathing water sampling
In today's blog we look at how the Environment Agency carries out its work in monitoring England's bathing waters.
Updated: Fri Dec 02 2022
COP27 - a personal perspective
Another year, another climate change COP! COP27 (Conference of Parties) was my second, having attended COP26 in Glasgow last year. This year's was distinctly different for me: partly because of the location - Glasgow and Sharm el Sheikh are ...
Updated: Fri Dec 02 2022
Planning new development in a climate emergency
By Sam Kipling, Senior Advisor on Coast & Development Planning I experienced flooding once. Sort of. The ballcock broke on my header tank and, for some reason, it didn't have an overflow, so water poured from my attic, down to ...
Updated: Fri Dec 02 2022
Saline incursion on the Norfolk Broads
Fisheries officer, Arnie Warsop, explains what saline incursion is and how the work of the Environment Agency protects up to half a million fish from these incursion events on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads.
Updated: Fri Dec 02 2022
Tree Production Innovation Fund: 2022 successful applicants
Megan Shirley is the Forestry Commission's Forest Nurseries & Innovation Grants, Incentives Manager. Here she talks about the successful applicants from the 2022 Tree Production Innovation Funds. To reach our net-zero tree planting commitments, it's vital that there are a ...
Updated: Thu Dec 01 2022
Water company fines to be invested back into the environment
Under new plans, money from water company fines will be invested directly back into environmental and water quality improvement projects.
Updated: Wed Nov 30 2022
Water crowfoot, or how we learned to love Ranunculus
Ranunculus sounds like a spell from the wizard world of Harry Potter. However, it is a lovely aquatic plant you would see in the UK's chalk streams. The presence of Ranunculus is usually a benefit, rarely a nuisance. But the ...
Updated: Wed Nov 30 2022
Winter - A time for giving, receiving .... and planting trees.
Get your woodland in the best shape with our tips for the best management practices to carry out in winter.
Updated: Wed Nov 30 2022
Free business advice: latest list of providers
Through the Future Farming Resilience Fund, any farmer or land manager in England who receives BPS (Basic Payment Scheme payments) is eligible to receive free business advice. In this post, I share the latest list of advice providers and explain how to get in touch.
Updated: Tue Nov 29 2022
Woods into Management Forestry Innovation Funds: 2022 successful applicants
Jack Clough is the Forestry Commission Grant Manager. Here he talks about the successful applicants from the 2022 Woods Into Management Forestry Innovation Funds. In the UK, it is often thought that woodlands should be left alone. However, much ...
Updated: Tue Nov 29 2022
Daily Express coverage of £20 million funding for woodlands
Today we are looking at media coverage of new Government funding for woodlands.
Updated: Mon Nov 28 2022
Times coverage of bathing water pollution inspections
Today we are looking at coverage in the Times of the Environment Agency's inspections of bathing water pollution incidents.
Updated: Sat Nov 26 2022
Anthropy's 'Vision for Britain': The Environment Agency welcomes a new leadership conference
A major new leadership gathering took over the Eden Project earlier this month, for three days of visioning, networking and partnering. A small EA team participated in the event. Here, Van Griffiths, Deputy Director of the Environment Agency's Sustainable Business ...
Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022
Boost for UK fishing industry with new infrastructure projects
There has been a widespread of coverage across the UK following our announcement that £20 million of funding has been awarded to winning seafood projects.
Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022
New scheme to protect our waterways from pollution and enable home building set to launch
by Mike Burke, Programme Director - Sustainable Development The Dasgupta review has shown that nature underpins everything we do, and investing in nature generates prosperity. Leonardo Da Vinci said that "water is the driving force of all nature", and no society ...
Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022
Antimicrobial resistance- working internationally to support local action
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) takes place this week, 18-24th November 2022, and aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices to avoid further emergence and spread of drug-resistant microbes. Cefas, the Animal and Plant ...
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
New Entrant Support Scheme: apply for the pilot
We want to better support those who want to enter farming and develop land-based businesses. One idea that we said we were keen to test through a pilot was incubation: providing tactical support to young businesses through the early stages of development. We put out a call for proposals from organisations to lead these projects through the new entrant support pilot. The bids we received over the summer were impressive. Now that we have pilot leads, you can apply to take part in the pilot.
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
Slurry Infrastructure grant: guidance now available
Applications for the new slurry infrastructure grant will open on 6 December 2022. To help you prepare, we've made the full grant guidance available on GOV.UK.
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022
Storm overflow discharges in the media
This government wants clean and safe rivers, lakes and seas, and we have been clear that we will hold water companies to account if they do not comply with our environmental regulations.
Updated: Thu Nov 24 2022