Scientists are warning that recent extreme weather events In Europe are directly attributable to human-induced climate change, with climate models showing roughly a doubling in likelihood and a 7% increase in intensity.
The National Infrastructure Commission is calling on the Government to set clear standards of resilience that infrastructure operators must maintain in the face of sudden shocks.
The Royal Academy of Engineering has today launched its new Green Future Fellowships. It will award £150 million over the next five years to 50 of the best ideas and scalable technologies essential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and for adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Anglian Water’s Rob Kelly, who is currently on secondment into the Norfolk Strategic Flooding Alliance as Water Management Director, explains what really happens to the water system during periods of heavy rainfall and the power a multi-agency approach can have on effective water management.
The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is warning that summer 2024 was the hottest on record both globally and for Europe and it is “increasingly likely that 2024 is going to be the warmest year on record.”
The Environment Agency is progressing work on the £24.8 million Leigh Flood Storage Area expansion and Hildenborough embankment scheme which protect communities in Tonbridge and Hildenborough are at risk of flooding from the River Medway.
The Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland has flagged up the “deteriorating condition and age” of many of Scottish Water’s assets and concerns that the current scale and pace of investment in the maintenance and replacement of water assets is "simply not sufficient."
Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally.
Ambitious plans by NI Water to plant 1 million trees across Northern Ireland by 2030 have almost reached the halfway mark.
Anglian Water is calling on people to submit their feedback to help shape plans for a new reservoir in Lincolnshire, before a consultation on the project closes on 9 August 2024.