An ingenious new system to help baby eels – elvers - migrate up UK rivers and the Severn Estuary Flood Risk Management Strategy have just been voted joint winners of the Environment Agency Project Excellence Awards 2014 for Innovation.

A new report from the European Environment Agency has proposed a method for mapping Europe’s 'green infrastructure'  - natural areas which often fulfil important yet unseen functions, including flood prevention.

The EU-funded BioFresh project has launched a new online Atlas of freshwater biodiversity presenting spatial information and species distribution patterns.

A new briefing from the European Environment Agency (EEA) argues that the cumulative impact of human activity should be better managed to avoid irreversible damage to ecosystems.

Novo Nordisk has become the first pharmaceutical company in the world to publish an environmental profit and loss account so that it can further integrate sustainability into its core business – the analysis shows that the environmental impacts of Novo Nordisk’s business cost €223m in 2011.

A new warning system is being developed that could reduce the damage caused to Welsh marine industries and native wildlife by non-native or ‘alien’ creatures in coastal waters.

Cranfield University is to co-lead a consortium of nine organisations from across Europe will investigate the environmental impact of noise, vibration and electromagnetic emissions from renewable energy devices on marine life.