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Rivers

August 2024

  • Glen Feshie in the Cairngorms national park.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A valley revived, as far as the eye can see

  • Gulls flying over landfill site.

    Urban birds are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds

  • A stealthy jaguar seems to crouch behind a flower on the bank of a waterway.

    The age of extinction
    ‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetland

  • Aerial photo of the Paraguay River flowing through the Pantanal wetlands, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil.

    The age of extinction
    Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn

  • UK rivers and beaches have been heaped with pollution for years – when will we talk about restoration?

  • Three water firms face record total £168m fine after sewage investigation

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

  • Notebook
    I swear by almighty river: an ancient practice is making a comeback in Britain’s courts

    Tim Adams
  • The Guardian view on reclaiming the Seine: hope for 21st century rivers

  • Environmentalist becomes first juror to swear oath on river water

July 2024

  • The Eiffel Tower is seen from the water of the Seine River, where a men’s triathlon event was rescheduled due to water quality.

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Where France’s €1.6bn plan to clean up the Seine for the Olympics went wrong

  • Future of Three tractors with Egyptian flags ploughing lush green fields.  project, Egypt's 'Future Project for Agricultural Production' comprises more than a million feddans, which represents around 50 percent of the New Delta project.

    Greening the desert: is Sisi’s grand plan using up all of Egypt’s water?

  • A white-clawed crayfish from the River Culm

    Country diary
    Country diary: Nature red in tooth and – quite literally – claw

  • A bee on a flower

    Revealed: Tories failed to do impact check before approving banned pesticide

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Life is hanging on at this heavenly crossroads

  • Real-time water quality monitors installed at wild swimming spots in southern England

  • With Paris Olympians set to dive into the Seine, could urban swimming come to Melbourne’s Yarra?

  • Information commissioner urges water firms to ‘be open’ about sewage spills

  • Chicken industry must halt expansion to stop ‘environmental scandal’ in River Severn

  • £1.2bn plan to turn sewage waste into drinking water branded a ‘white elephant’

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