The River Crane in West London is the UK’s first urban Smarter Water Catchment and since 2020 has benefited from £3m of direct investment across five main themes – community and access; biodiversity; water quality; geomorphology and flooding – with at least £20m of further investment identified...
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Recent decades have seen environmental challenges escalate to the point of crisis across the planet. In the UK, the situation is no different: climate change,...
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Our annual report provides an opportunity for our members and stakeholders to find out more about the IES and our activities over the last year.
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Innovations in AI, machine learning, and other digital technologies are already offering enormous benefits for environmental science, and for the health of our ecosystems. Yet with these...
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Britain’s natural environment is often viewed as something that exists independently of our financial and governance systems. Whilst there are questions about whether we should reduce nature to a...
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The water crisis is now a familiar feature in the UK media: from sewage discharges released into our rivers and seas, to plastic pollution damaging our wastewater systems, and droughts and floods...
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How we respond to matters of environmental justice in the present will shape our society well into the future, as the world grapples with the intensifying effects of climate change and countless...
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No profession operates in a vacuum and it is imperative that we pay attention to emerging drivers of change.
This edition of environmental SCIENTIST explores how the European...
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