Sewage spills highlight the urgent need to upgrade the UK’s ageing sewer network.
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The UK’s Victorian-era sewer network is at breaking point.
Seagrass meadows are an important part of the UK’s marine environment.
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Seagrasses need light to remain resilient to marine heatwaves – water pollution disrupts that balance.
A bathing site in the Tjuvholmen neighbourhood of Oslo, Norway.
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The UK needs to clean its rivers and coastlines, and could look to Europe for how to do it.
Hull Peninsula and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.
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A few decades ago Boston Harbor was one of the nation’s dirtiest water bodies. Now, healthier fish in the harbor underscore that a multibillion-dollar cleanup has succeeded.
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If you want to live like a local when on holiday, you should defecate like one.