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Pilot scheme to remove the fast growing invasive species floating pennywort on River Colne
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Natural England in partnership with the Environment Agency, Defra and local water companies unveils this year’s champion young farmers
The work to improve a pumping station will help protect 15,000 homes, plus habitat, businesses and infrastructure
Hundreds of homes in a North Yorkshire town have been added to the national flood warning service scheme.
It was removed by the Environment Agency as part of a 'boat blitz' on Anglian waterways to clear sunken, abandoned and illegal vessels
Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd delivers a speech at the Manchester Green Summit.
A new website has been set up to give residents the chance to help protect against flooding in Hull.
The Environment Agency has officially opened over 7 kilometres of new river and sea defences in the coastal town of Shoreham, helping to keep the community safe from flooding from storms and rising sea levels.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency speech at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Almost 300 properties included in flood-prevention scheme
After an absence of 400 years, the Eurasian beaver is back in Essex, with a pair now released into an enclosure on a historic country estate.
In 1968 a summer storm flooded homes and businesses across Devon and Somerset, thousands were driven from their homes and tragically a number of lives were lost.
Illegal waste dealer ordered to pay back £200,000
The National Drought Group (NDG) met on Monday 18 March, chaired by Harvey Bradshaw, Executive Director at the Environment Agency, to assess the latest water resource situation and actions being taken to reduce risk for the …
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency Waterwise Conference, 19 March 2019
The tiny coastal community of Stolford has become the first location in the UK to benefit from innovative flood defence technology pioneered in Holland.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency speech at the Women’s Engineering Society Centenary Conference
Emma Howard Boyd has been reappointed as Environment Agency Chair.
The Environment Agency is reminding anglers that coarse fishing on rivers is closed for three months from Friday 15 March.
Building work began on a unique fish pass, which is being built underneath the nearby disused 19th century pump house on River Churnet.
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