As part of New Scientist's Save Britain's Rivers campaign, we've rounded up the best citizen science projects that let you play an active role in improving the nation's waterways ...

Only 14% of rivers in England have “good” ecological status and this figure could fall to just 6% by 2027. In February 2023, campaigns to save Britain’s rivers were launched by the Times ...

Things haven’t improved since. No rivers in England, Wales or Northern Ireland are considered to be in high ecological health, and only 14 per cent of England’s rivers qualify as good.

Labour will leave Britain with the cleanest rivers on record by cutting sewage pollution from water firms in half by 2030, the environment secretary will say. Steve Reed will promise on Sunday to make ...

PROF. D. L. LINTON, in his article on “River Flow in Great Britain, 1955–56”1, has a map showing ‘run-off deficit’, defined as “Precipitation minus run-off”.

As a result, a new trend is taking hold, in Swindale and elsewhere: Britain is putting the kinks and wiggles back into its rivers. Across the country, thousands of waterways are being encouraged ...