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No Mow May
I’ve always liked mowing the lawn. Perhaps it’s a childhood nostalgia thing, having watched my dad do it seemingly every weekend in summer. The smell, the neat intermittent stripes, the angry roar as the mower lifted for each turn.
The true cost of water
If you’re reading this in England or Wales, I’ve got some bad news: your water bill is about to go up. From April 2025, water bills are set to increase by £31 a year, an average of 33%, over the next five years.
The return of the beaver
When I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, wild beavers in England were unthinkable. They were exotic creatures, the stuff of North American storybooks. However, unbeknownst to me and most British schoolchildren, the Eurasian beaver hadn’t gone extinct — though, it very nearly had.
Tech solutions to the water crisis
When most people think of tech solutions to the water crisis, they tend to think of one thing: desalination.
Microplastics in Water: How Concerned Should We Be?
2024 ended in a fairly crushing blow for the environment. And I’m not even talking about Trump. The UN’s global plastics treaty, officially the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution, met in Busan, South Korea, with expectations to become The Paris Agreement for plastics.
How can 'rainy England' have a water problem?!
Let’s face it, 2024 has been a wash-out.
Make Your Mind Up: Is it Floods or Drought that’s the problem?
It’s been a fitting month to talk about flooding.
