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Blue Carbon Hope: Restoring Saltmarsh to Capture CO2

Across the UK, where river meets tide and land negotiates with sea, a quiet revolution is underway. Saltmarsh, long dismissed as soggy fringe-land, is being reimagined as climate infrastructure.

Shaun Warren

Mar 3, 2026

The return to the return of the beavers: Part 2

One year after their return to the Nene Wetlands, Tim Smedley and the WaterMatters team revisit Britain’s newest ecosystem engineers, exploring how beavers could reshape drought, flooding and the future of our rivers, if policy allows it.

Tim Smedley

Feb 23, 2026

The return to the return of the beavers: Part 1

Twelve months on from their historic reintroduction, Tim Smedley returns to Northamptonshire’s wetlands to find a growing beaver family reshaping water, woodland and expectation.

Tim Smedley

Feb 11, 2026

Reeds and Resilience: The Wetland Filtering a Town’s Wastewater Naturally

How a living wetland uses reeds, microbes and time to treat an entire town’s sewage without energy, chemicals or concrete tanks.

Shaun Warren

Jan 27, 2026

Water in 2026: Five Signals Worth Watching

Not predictions. Signals. Quiet shifts already under way that hint at how water policy, planning, and public trust may change in the year ahead.

Shaun Warren

Jan 12, 2026

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