Wild swimmers in Shrewsbury can now make better-informed decisions about river safety through an expanded regional pilot project, which monitors river water quality on a daily basis.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is warning that six areas of Scotland are now at Significant Scarcity, the highest level, as prolonged dry conditions continue across the east.

Climate change made weather conditions leading to deadly wildfires in Türkiye, Cyprus and Greece 10 times more likely, acording to researchers at the Weather Attribution Service and other leading climate scientists.

The Environment Agency has issued a drought permit that will allow Yorkshire Water to reduce how much water is released from the Grimwith Reservoir to “top up” natural flows within the River Wharfe.

As climate change is exacerbates heat stress around the world, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have created Thermal Trace, a fast and intuitive application to explore maps, charts and decades of data to monitor heat and cold stress globally and how this is changing over time.

Industrial process water and wastewater treatment specialists Evides Industriewater UK is warning that industry must prepare for tighter restrictions on water use in a new briefing paper released today.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is warning that some rivers in the east of Scotland are once again approaching critical low flow levels, and a number of areas are around two weeks away from potential Significant Scarcity.