More than 250 homes and businesses in Ponteland are better protected from flooding now Environment Agency work on a £2.7million flood scheme has been completed.

A host of environmental benefits and flood defences for towns and villages around the Norfolk Broads are the result of a 20 year project reaching its conclusion. The unique scheme will improve and maintain 240km of flood defences in the Norfolk Broads, one of Europe’s most important wetland areas.

Historic citywide flooding in New York City over the past three days has highlighted the vulnerability of the city’s infrastructure to climate change impacts.

A new study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, which has been conducting real-time attribution analysis of extreme weather events as they happen around the world since 2015, has concluded that last month’s heavy rainfall which led to severe flooding in Western Europe was made more likely by climate change.

The Environment Agency (EA) has published its biennial report on reservoir safety for 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020 - the report is a comprehensive review of reservoir compliance and enforcement over the last 2 years.

The Environment Agency (EA) has published a set of standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.

More than 20 natural features have been constructed to bolster flood protection in the North East as part of a pioneering £2.1 million natural flood management project.

The Environment Agency, Leeds City Council and the White Rose Forest partnership are calling for landowners to introduce natural flood management measures on their land to help mitigate climate change and reduce the risk of flooding in the River Aire catchment, from Malham to Leeds.