Environment quality UK news
| Map | |
|---|---|
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 54° 42' 8.48" N, 3° 16' 35.67" W |
Stay updated with the latest UK news on Environment quality activism, highlighting innovative strategies and community based and community led action aimed at promoting a better quality environment for the health and wellbeing of all, environmental justice for both people and nature.
2025
How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025) - Legal challenge begins against Gatwick expansion, BBC News (Oct 15, 2025)
- Thousands join biggest-ever UK environmental lawsuit over river pollution, BBC News (Oct 07, 2025)
- UK fracking ban to be brought forward, theguardian.com (Oct 01, 2025) — government to speed up its plans to permanently ban fracking in the UK
- Bottom trawling ban hailed by fishing groups, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025) — Fishing campaigners say a bottom trawling ban in West Sussex could be a "blueprint of success" for other parts of the South East
- ‘You don’t get to aim big when you are somewhere small’: A teenager’s fight to end single use plastics on her Scottish island, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- Scotland’s first community-led marine conservation network, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Aug 28, 2025)
- From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2025) — Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit
- Campaigners take airport expansion to High Court, BBC News (Aug 04, 2025) — Campaign group argues the government acted unlawfully when it granted the scheme permission - as the impact on climate change had not been properly assessed. The government backed the project despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending it should be rejected over environmental concerns
- Air quality isn’t just bad in cities – here’s why and how we’re tracking pollution from upland fires, theconversation.com (Jun 30, 2025)
- Low emission zones are successful in cutting air pollution, study finds, theguardian.com (May 16, 2025)
- The UK is falling behind in tackling microplastic pollution – here are three ways the government can catch up, theconversation.com (May 06, 2025)
- What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care. George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Mar 21, 2025)
- Wilderness to Wonderland community garden project volunteers tidying up neglected public spaces in Margate, BBC News (Mar 15, 2025)
- Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
- Costly nitrogen pollution can be tackled by farmers adopting organic practices, Lords told, soilassociation.org (Mar 05, 2025)
- Norwich Western Link road plans withdrawn due to concerns on bats, BBC News (Jan 21, 2025)
2024
- Storm Bert offers stark reminder of UK’s underfunded flood defences, theguardian.com (Nov 26, 2024)
- More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2024)
- One in four neighbourhoods across England breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024) — New research by Friends of the Earth shows 1 in 4 neighbourhoods classify as nature pollution hotspots. Pollution hotspots are areas where air, water, noise and light pollution levels all exceed safe thresholds for wildlife. Friends of the Earth is calling for the right to a healthy environment to be enshrined in a new Environmental Rights Act. The law would empower communities to hold regulators and public bodies to account to reduce the multiple layers of pollution affecting their areas to better protect wildlife and people.
- ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2024)
- Expanding London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) has improved air quality and reduced harmful emissions from cars and vans says City Hall, BBC News (Jul 25, 2024)
- Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
- Wolds oil drilling plans quashed in landmark ruling, BBC News (Jul 11, 2024)
- Cumbria coalmine was unlawfully approved, government says, theguardian.com (Jul 11, 2024)
- As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be an answer, bbc.co.uk (Jul 05, 2024)
- Edinburgh Council bans advertising for fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports, fossil-powered cars, SUVs, cruise ships and arms manufacturers on council-owned advertising spaces, badverts.org (May 29, 2024) — across England, one-third of local authorities now have some form of restrictions on harmful advertising
- Thames21 welcomes Government’s plan to ban plastic in wet wipes, thames21.org.uk (Apr 22, 2024)
- New Sheffield ad ban shows how councils can act on harmful advertising, adfreecities.org.uk (Mar 19, 2024)
- Dorset Wildlife Trust partners with Natural England to acquire Lyscombe Farm, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/news (Mar 08, 2024)
- ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
- ‘Like the flip of a switch, it’s gone’: has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed?, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2024)
- A final line of defence: combatting the slow, agonising death of the River Wye, riveractionuk.com (Feb 09, 2024)
- Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye, BBC News (Feb 07, 2024)
- Pesticides urgently need reform – the UK’s overdue action plan must make these drastic changes, theconversation.com (Feb 05, 2024)
- Brexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s vital environmental protections, theguardian.com (Jan 19, 2024)
- Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024)
2023
- UK ministers ‘misled public’ when scrapping air quality regulations, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2023)
- The Wildlife Trusts publish list of the UK’s Government’s broken promises to nature, wildlifetrusts.org (Nov 03, 2023)
- Ammanford: Opencast coalmine plans rejected by council, BBC News (Sep 15, 2023)
- Lords sink plan to axe homebuilding pollution rules, BBC news (Sep 14, 2023)
- ‘Unacceptable’: how raw sewage has affected rivers in England and Wales – in maps, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2023)
- Clean air ‘a right not a privilege’, says London mayor as Ulez is expanded, theguardian.com (Aug 29, 2023)
- Ministers accused of ‘environmental crime’ over South Downs oil drilling, theguardian.com (Aug 23, 2023)
- High costs deterring legal challenges in England and Wales to protect environment, NGOs say, The Guardian (Jun 28, 2023)
- Horse Hill oil - a legal challenge with real climate impact, friendsoftheearth.uk (Jun 28, 2023)
- At last, England’s dying rivers are an election issue – and the danger isn’t just sewage, George Monbiot, The Guardian (May 03, 2023)
- Protesters urge caution over St Ives climate trial amid chemical plans for bay, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
- UK criticised for failing to join UN-backed river restoration scheme, newscientist.com (Mar 24, 2023)
- The ‘bin-novative’ approach to rubbish that’s slashing beach litter, positive.news (Feb 16, 2023)
2022
- If more houses had water butts, it could help with drought, flooding and water pollution, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Bradford clean air zone launches, BBC News (Sep 26, 2022)
- Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households every year, and just 12% recycled in the UK., The Big Plastic Count (Jul 12, 2022) — The Big Plastic Count has revealed that 88% our household waste is being burnt, buried and dumped overseas.
- Majority of residents think Staveley Rd barrier is a success, chiswickcalendar.co.uk (May 30, 2022)
- Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics, The Conversation (May 23, 2022)
- Fracking: UK's only shale gas wells to be sealed and abandoned, BBC News (Feb 10, 2022)
- 'Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn, BBC News (Jan 13, 2022)
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
| Authors | Phil Green |
|---|---|
| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2020–2025). "Environment quality UK news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |