5 tips for managing your woodland this summer
Nature Recovery Advisor MacBradan Bones shares his tips on managing your woodland in summer.
Updated: Fri Aug 02 2024
Ensuring nuclear reactor designs meet high standards of environmental protection
The Environment Agency's New Reactors Assessment Team is carrying out assessments of three small modular reactor nuclear power station designs. Andrew Pynn, Senior Advisor for the project, summarises what we have been doing on two of the projects and why. ...
Updated: Fri Aug 02 2024
Revitalising the Hamble Brook: A new wetland haven in Buckinghamshire
New life has been breathed into Buckinghamshire's Hamble Brook by a substantial wetland site spanning 2,500 square metres. This work, led by the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, further extends the largest scheme of its kind involving the Environment Agency, and ...
Updated: Fri Aug 02 2024
The Chief Scientist Report: 2023
Professor Sallie Bailey, Chief Scientist at Natural England, tells us about the publication of Natural England's sixth Chief Scientist Report This Report, the sixth in the series, focusses on the impact our work has and - crucially - how ...
Updated: Fri Aug 02 2024
Bringing new life to Hull's urban waters
Hull is a city that has long been defined by its relationship with water. Environment Programme Project Manager, Dan Jagucki, talks about an innovative project to bring new life into Hull's urban waterways. Hundreds of years ago the city and ...
Updated: Thu Aug 01 2024
Celebrating Marine Protected Areas Awareness Day
As we celebrate Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Awareness Day, it's fitting that we reflect on the importance of MPAs, the role we play in manging those in English waters and the support we provide internationally to the UK Overseas Territories ...
Updated: Thu Aug 01 2024
Combatting crime in rural communities
Sgt Dan Goss from Merseyside Police Rural, Wildlife & Heritage Team shares how working collaboratively with the Environment Agency and others is helping to stop waste crime across Merseyside's rural areas. Merseyside Police is one of the newest forces to ...
Updated: Wed Jul 31 2024
Coverage of rapid review to meet Environment Act targets
Today we're looking at coverage of the government's Environmental Improvement Plan announcement.
Updated: Wed Jul 31 2024
How we're bringing change to water industry performance
The water industry is underperforming, and it needs to change. We know that people want and deserve more for their water environment. We are meeting this challenge head on. We want to be a modern, confident and efficient regulator. To enable ...
Updated: Wed Jul 31 2024
What is a chemistry sample and why does the Environment Agency do them?
My name is Lucy, and I am a Field Monitoring Officer in the National Monitoring Field Team. My role involves collecting water samples from bathing waters and rivers. I take several types of samples but today I am going to ...
Updated: Wed Jul 31 2024
Delivering for nature and the economy
Home builders in the Poole Harbour catchment area can apply for Nutrient Credits from 31 July. Natural England is playing its part in getting Britain building by enabling sustainable growth and safeguarding our rivers, lakes and seas. One way we ...
Updated: Tue Jul 30 2024
Holme Fen National Nature Reserve peatland restoration project
By Catherine Weightman, Natural England's Senior Project Manager for Peatland Restoration in the Fens - West Anglia Team I've been working for Natural England and its predecessors for more than twenty years. I'm currently working on peatland restoration in the ...
Updated: Tue Jul 30 2024
International cooperation helps understand the threat from an invasive forest pest
Dr Daegan Inward shares his insights into the ongoing studies on Ips typographus, the pest of spruce trees also known as the eight toothed spruce bark beetle.
Updated: Tue Jul 30 2024
Eat. Sleep. Peat. RePeat: Celebrating International Bog Day!
Happy International Bog Day! It's finally here! International Bog Day on Sunday 28th July, is essentially Christmas for the Environment Agency's National Peatlands team. It highlights the international importance of bogs, fens, swamps and marshes and in fact anywhere with ...
Updated: Fri Jul 26 2024
Into the woods: growing up with the trees
Join us for this month's 'Into the woods' blog by Faye Dawson, who shares her experiences of growing up with a family-owned woodland near Bath.
Updated: Fri Jul 26 2024
Storm recovery in Lincolnshire
My name is Paul Dutchburn, and I am the Asset Performance Team Leader in the South Humber & East Coast (SHEC) in the Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire Area. Six months after the eighth storm of the 2023-2024 season, I am now ...
Updated: Wed Jul 24 2024
The Environment Agency has published its annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) report
The Environment Agency has published its annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) report of the environmental performance of England's nine water and sewerage companies during 2023. The EPA is the only independent comparison of environmental performance across the sector. While it ...
Updated: Wed Jul 24 2024
BNG lessons learned with Local Planning Authorities
By Ruth Andreyeva, Director of Land, Water and Seas strategy Biodiversity net gain (BNG) became mandatory in England earlier in 2024, after many years of collaboration across industry and the public sector. We celebrate this milestone wholeheartedly, but we're not ...
Updated: Tue Jul 23 2024
Flood & Coast Excellence Awards 2024: Celebrating Innovation and Collaboration
This week, the Environment Agency hosted the Flood and Coast Excellence Awards. These celebrate some of the most innovative and impactful flood and coastal erosion risk management projects from across the country writes Caroline Douglass, Environment Agency Executive Director of ...
Updated: Fri Jul 19 2024
How grass cutting on flood defences reduces the risk of flooding
Abigail Ovenden, Asset Management Engagement Advisor in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, talks about how important it is to cut grass on flood defences and why such work is done. You may have seen our Environment Agency teams and contractors out cutting ...
Updated: Fri Jul 19 2024
Understanding algal blooms in the River Wye
My name is Jason Doe and I'm a freshwater ecologist in the Environment Agency. I have been surveying algae in the River Wye for several years and find the interactions between aquatic life and its environment fascinating. Plants and invertebrates ...
Updated: Fri Jul 19 2024
Farmers - Protect yourselves from waste criminals
A wet winter has meant it's been a difficult start to the year for many farmers. Facing reduced early crop yields or worse still, zero yields, the temptation to cut costs or diversify, to find additional income is more tempting ...
Updated: Thu Jul 18 2024
Government introduces new bill to clean up water sector
Today we are looking at the introduction of the government's first steps to transform the water sector.
Updated: Thu Jul 18 2024
Anglian Water Services Ltd fined £50k in case brought by the Environment Agency
We continue to work on our largest ever criminal investigation, to date, into potential breaches of environmental permit conditions by all water and sewerage companies discharging into English waters. The extent of potential non-compliance involves more than 2,000 wastewater treatment ...
Updated: Tue Jul 16 2024
Helping farmers get ready for winter with slurry storage support
Is your farm winter ready? We know winter woollies are well packed away, crops are growing, combine harvesters will soon be in the fields and many of you will have fingers crossed for dry, settled weather. But time keeps moving ...
Updated: Tue Jul 16 2024