Environmental News from United Kingdom

EarthWire UK provides a daily overview of the environment in the UK as reported in the media. The web site is updated every day by a team of editors that reviews media sources for environmental news stories.

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Freshwater

Camelford poisoning: 'water authority insisted supplies were safe'
Guardian Unlimited | 01 Nov 2010
Inquest hears how water authority said there was no health risk after aluminium sulphate was dumped in wrong tank. A water authority instructed its communications centre to tell people their tap water was safe even as one customer reported that his hair was sticking together and others said the...

More swimming spots pass quality tests
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 24 Nov 2009
Swimming spots in England and Wales are getting cleaner according to latest test results published this month.

Freshwater | Water Pollution

How the last Ice Age took just SIX months to arrive
Daily Mail | 15 Nov 2009
Previous studies have suggested the arrival of the last ice age nearly 13,000 years ago took about a decade - but now scientists believe the process was up to 20 times as fast.

Freshwater

Alert on threat to freshwater crabs
The Herald | 26 Jul 2009
Pollution and habitat loss are wiping out one of the essential guardians of the world's river systems, it was claimed today. A sixth of all the world's freshwater crab species are now threatened with extinction, according to experts.

Deforestation | Freshwater | Habitat Loss | Recycling | Water Pollution

River sewage spill 'not accident'
BBC | 07 Jul 2009
An inquiry has begun after more than 200 fish were killed when raw sewage spilled into the River Thames.

Freshwater | Water Pollution

Recycled bottles used at reserve
BBC | 03 Jul 2009
Thousands of plastic bottles are turned into a dipping platform and two boardwalks at a Suffolk nature reserve.

Freshwater | Recycling

Mekong dolphins 'almost extinct'
BBC | 18 Jun 2009
Freshwater dolphins in the Mekong River are on the verge of extinction, according to the conservation group WWF.

Freshwater | Water Pollution

Mekong river dolphin near extinct: WWF
Yahoo! News | 18 Jun 2009
Pollution in southeast Asia's Mekong River has pushed freshwater dolphins in Cambodia and Laos to the brink of extinction, an international conservation group said.

Freshwater | Water Pollution

House of shells on the beach is Potter film set
BBC | 11 May 2009
Filming for Harry Potter begins, the first of two Hollywood blockbusters to use a west Wales beach for scenes.

Freshwater

Snake on a plate
Ananova | 08 May 2009
A New York man regretted changing his side order from chips to vegetables after finding a snake's head in his broccoli.

Freshwater

Waiter, there's a snake in my broccoli
Yahoo! News | 07 May 2009
Meat and veg is fine, but a snake head with broccoli?

Freshwater

Project to rescue pond wildlife
BBC | 02 May 2009
More than £200,000 is to be spent on restoring ponds throughout the Tees Valley.

Biodiversity | Freshwater | Habitat Loss

Climate change drying up big rivers, study finds
Yahoo! News | 21 Apr 2009
Rivers in some of the world's most populated regions are losing water, many because of climate change, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Freshwater | Climate Change

Water worries cloud future for U.S. biofuel
Yahoo! News | 14 Apr 2009
It's corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl "Buck" Rexford is worrying about the weather -- and hoping there is enough water.

Cleaner Technologies | Drought | Freshwater

Massive Antarctic ice shelf set to break loose
Yahoo! News | 03 Apr 2009
A Jamaica-sized ice shelf is close to wrenching itself away from Antarctica, following dramatic weakening of an ice "bridge" linking it to the continent, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported Friday.

Freshwater

Southern Africa's freshwater species 'in peril'
Yahoo! News | 19 Mar 2009
The world's leading conservation agency on Thursday said many species of freshwater fish, shellfish and insects in southern Africa were at threat from water extraction and habitat loss.

Freshwater | Habitat Loss

The Red Sea might save the Dead Sea
Yahoo! News | 19 Mar 2009
Abundant water from the Red Sea could replenish the shrinking Dead Sea if Jordan, Israel and the Palestinians decide to commission a tunnel north through the Jordanian desert from the Gulf of Aqaba.

Freshwater

Solve water problems before peace deal: Abbas
Yahoo! News | 19 Mar 2009
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas accused Israel on Thursday of forcing Palestinians to live in chronic water scarcity and declared a "rightful share" of water should not be tied to a peace deal.

Freshwater

Please save our water, world forum told
Yahoo! News | 16 Mar 2009
The World Water Forum, a seven-day arena aimed at addressing the planet's deepening crisis of fresh water, was launched here Monday to appeals for a campaign to save the precious stuff of life.

Freshwater

Water forum seeks way through worsening crisis
Yahoo! News | 15 Mar 2009
Politicians, corporate executives, engineers and greens gather here on Monday for a week-long arena aimed at tackling the planet's fast-growing water crisis.

Drought | Freshwater

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