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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Children and politicians have been urged by a charity to appreciate the importance of rivers and "globally rare" chalk streams during a county's first ever Rivers Week. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife ...

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 world has fewer than 300 chalk streams — and England has most of them. These streams occur only where chalk bedrock meets the Earth’s surface, making them globally rare. Their stable, cool, ...

The Environment Agency has tripled its number of in-person river inspections, says Newbury’s MP, as work to protect chalk streams is stepped up.

Ali Morse, Water Policy Manager, looks at the UK Government’s Water White Paper and where it might lead us in terms of water companies, the environment and more.