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Water

May 2026

  • Before and after composite of a dam removal

    Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive

  • Overhead view of dry banks around a narrow strip of water and a small bridge, with a larger and higher road bridge behind it and a widening expanse of blue water.

    England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn

  • Jan Cope and Ruth Needham beside the River Mease.

    The English community that brought its river back from the brink: ‘If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere’

  • A man and a woman with two small children standing on rocks by the sea use nets on poles to scoop up marine creatures. Tankers can be seen in the waterway behind them

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England

  • Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier

  • Is it time to stop watering our gardens?

  • River Thames in London gets first official bathing spot on Friday

  • ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

  • Lasers in the sky: hi-tech missions track record snowpack loss in US west

  • Australian climate and environment in focus
    Second-driest April on record for NSW as likely El Niño brings threat of dry year ahead

  • South East Water CEO to step down after Kent and Sussex supply outages

  • Water flows to parched NSW wetlands could be turned back on within weeks as drought fears loom

  • Up to 2cm a month: Nasa keeps track as Mexico City sinks into the ground

  • The aftermath
    From V2 rocket-scarred London to Ukraine: how nature thrives in bomb craters

  • Horrified Wagga residents call for proper sanitation at homeless camp where baby was found dead

  • Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean

  • ‘We don’t hear the frogs, we don’t see the birds’: government repeatedly delayed water to NSW wetlands, documents reveal

April 2026

  • Aerial view of roads bordering vast pools coloured lemon yellow and white

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Critical minerals are ‘oil of 21st century’ as demand fuels poverty and pollution in poorer countries

    Rush for lithium, cobalt and nickel is ravaging livelihoods, water and health of world’s most vulnerable, UN study says
  • Flooded street with submerged cars and homes abandoned in York city centre.

    Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds

    Exclusive: 839,000 homes in urban areas face threat of surface-water flooding, with social housing tenants most vulnerable to costs
  • People fill plastic jerry cans with water from hoses connected to a tanker truck

    Deadly Israeli attacks worsen Gaza’s water shortage crisis

    Engineer and two drivers killed in recent weeks as scarcity of clean water fuels spread of preventable diseases
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