Campaigners want to stop vehicles legally driving along a 200m section of chalk stream in Hampshire.

Microplastics are a well-known and frequently studied environmental contaminant often associated with ocean plastic. However, their reach is unfortunately much wider, as new research centering on an ...

The River Ash in Hertfordshire – a chalk stream tributary of the River Lea is one of the streams surveyed as part of the GeneFlow project. Some of our most beautiful rivers in the UK are known as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. Plastic and fiberglass particles have been found in the River ...

Unbelievably, 4x4 vehicles are being driven LEGALLY through protected chalk streams!

Pollution spotted in an East Yorkshire chalk steam is thought to have come from road run-off, a water company has said. Yorkshire Water told the BBC it had investigated the contamination of Driffield ...

Rising temperatures in chalk streams are damaging them and suffocating wildlife, conservations have said. Chalk streams are very rare and ecologically important habitats, mainly found in southern ...

A "ambitious" project to restore a 4.3-mile (7km) stretch of a rare chalk river to its original course has been completed. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said the "landmark" scheme, on the River ...

Many of us may have enjoyed a chalk stream without even realising it. On a sunny day, clear water flows over pebbles, ducks paddle along the banks, and insects flit above the surface.

The next phase of our sewer sealing programme to tackle decades of groundwater-related flooding in the Lavant Valley is set to begin in West Dean.