- Cleaning up after the floods: 25 volunteers from the Mersey Basin Rivers Trust tackle debris in Bury’s Springwater Park
- “Flood management is more or less where medicine was in the 17th century: unscientific and irrational”: George Monbiot tackles Permanent Ineligible Features (PIFs) and farming subsidy public spending that ‘rushes rivers into our homes‘…
- … and more from Monbiot: why grouse moor management contributed to urban flooding in Hebden Bridge, and baffling cognitive dissonance from government
- How natural flood defences protected Pickering and several other towns (though maybe it just didn’t rain so much on the North York Moors?) and CEH scientists discuss the full complexity of issues
- So, did EU policies and legislation actually contribute to flooding? The European Commission says vehemently “non”
- Handguns, scooters, bikes, radios and shopping trolleys… there’s lots of familiar rubbish coming out of the Canal Saint-Martin in the Dixieme Arrondissement of Paris…
- Clean for the Queen: who’s in?
- Leicester’s river rangers report immediate results from England’s 5p plastic bag tax (#Bagmageddon much?)
- A new urban river restoration project is born on the River Marden in Calne
(Photo: Prestwich & Whitefield Guide)
