UK Nature and Environment

527 readers

72 users here now

General Instance Rules:

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
Do not spam or abuse network features.

Community Specific Rules:

Keep posts UK-specific. There are other places on Lemmy to post articles which relate to global environmental issues (e.g. slrpnk.net).
Keep comments in English so that they can be appropriately moderated.

Note: Our temporary logo is from The Wildlife Trusts. We are not officially associated with them.

Our winter banner is a shot of Shotley marshes, Suffolk by GreyShuck.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

UK and Welsh governments announce £1m fund to tackle River Wye pollution (www.standard.co.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The UK and Welsh governments have announced a joint £1 million research initiative for the heavily polluted River Wye.

The river, which runs for 130 miles from central Wales to the Severn Estuary in south-west England, has seen its water quality and wildlife drastically decline after years of exposure to agricultural pollution, sewage discharges and phosphates.

Water minister Emma Hardy and Welsh deputy first minister Huw Irranca-Davies announced the funding during a roundtable meeting in Monmouth on Monday.

The cross-border research programme will investigate the sources of pollution and pressures facing the river, as well as study the impacts of changing farming practices and land management, the Government said.

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Remove the huge intensive Chicken breeding units!