Sandra Laville

Eleven billion litres of raw sewage were discharged from a sample of 30 water company treatment works in one year, new research suggests. The study aimed to reveal the volume of discharged effluent…

English water companies will pay an estimated £14.7bn in dividends by the end of this decade, while making customers pay for new investment to stem the tide of sewage pollution in seas and rivers,…

This year’s temperatures would have been virtually impossible without climate crisis, scientists say More than 20,000 people died across western Europe in this summer’s heatwaves, in temperatures…

Campaigners have begun a legal challenge against the government’s decision to give the Sizewell C nuclear power station the go-ahead amid warnings that UK nuclear plants will be on the frontline of…

Cláudia Agostinho has been going to Pedrogao beach since she was a child. Back then it was a stretch of silver white sand sandwiched between pine trees and sea.

The cost of decommissioning the UK’s seven ageing nuclear power stations has nearly doubled to £23.5bn and is likely to rise further, the public accounts committee has said. The soaring costs of…

UK only in early stages of finding permanent site for underground storage of hazardous spent fuel. As Boris Johnson prepares a new push for nuclear power, the £131bn problem of how to safely dispose…

NGOs report fourfold increases in investments in carbon-reducing projects in developing countries. Growing concern about the climate crisis and the “Greta Thunberg effect” are driving huge increases…