People living close to a gas drilling site near West Newton have blamed exploratory drilling operations of a Canadian energy firm for a nauseous smell, which...
Artists, helped by community members and experts, have drown a blue chalk line across Bristol to show which parts of the city would be underwater because...
The government has opened the bidding process that will allow companies to apply for shale gas exploration. World Heritage sites and national parks are also open...
Philip Dilley, the former chairman of a engineering firm that wrote environmental reports on fracking, will be the new chairman of the Environment Agency in September,...
Deposits of shale gas overlap with almost half of the UK’s primary water aquifers, presenting significant potential risks of water contamination if these areas were exploited,...
The outgoing head of the Environment Agency has called for the government to allow fracking firms to operate in national parks, claiming that the impacts of...
The government must increase spending on flood defences if a repeat of the floods that devastated many parts of the UK last winter is to be...
Alerts remain in place in parts of England, with forecasters warning that sharp downpours could lead to localised flooding in the Midlands, south-east, south-west and north-east...
Heavy rain may bring flooding to parts of the UK over the next few days, with Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire and the Humber particularly at risk, forecasters...
Around 40 English beaches are at risk of failing new regulations on sewage flow that will come into force from next year, the Environment Agency (EA)...
Suzanne Laidlaw from the Environment Agency writes about a new initiative that uses environmental data to inform investment decisions. The CLEAR Info project (Company Level Environmental...
The Environment Agency has admitted that it was a mistake to build the UK’s nuclear waste dump on its current location on the West Cumbrian coast,...
After the wettest British winter since records began in 1910 caused severe flooding across the country, the Environment Agency has completed a “health check” of defences...
The seemingly endless period of heavy rainfall and strong winds appears to be behind the UK, though not without lasting effects. Thousands of homes were affected...
A new report has revealed that the illegal dumping and misleading classification of waste and related crimes lead to losses of around £568m a year in...