Environment

Thames Water is on the verge of going bust, is borrowing money from hedge funds and has taken out an emergency loan to see it through to Christmas. How on earth did it come to this?

Feargal has shown what can be achieved when someone with a national voice shouts loud. We need someone to do the same in the fight against litter

First came a devastating flood.. then a city’s battle to save its cultural heritage

The floods north of Valencia have left a scene of almost unimaginable destruction

Humanity could not exist without water. So why are we destroying our rivers?

The roots of Britain’s water crisis, like so many now facing the country, lay in Thatcherite deregulation

If the capital runs out of water, what then?

Is a new €1bn infrastructure fund the answer to Europe’s flooding problems? Or is a more drastic plan needed?

You’re lucky to get a few seconds between spotting roadside refuse when driving in Britain. Tackling this is an easy win for the government

The food capital of Italy is becoming a victim of the apocalyptic rising levels of the Ravone River

Sewage discharges are a regular practice in Britain and they are a threat to people’s health. The public are outraged

Decades ago, holidaymakers in Bude knew that when you went in the sea, you kept your mouth shut. Today, that rule is back

How we treat our land is revealed in its freshwaters and the anglers are there to notice it first

In Brussels, rain has become all we talk about; we plan our social life around it

To the dismay of tourists and locals, monstrous medusas are thriving in the Mediterranean’s warming waters

Flooding from the River Danube has been a horrifying experience – and the clean-up has only just begun.

Legal battles are ongoing to protect the wild fish populations in the loughs of the west of Ireland from the threat of salmon farming

When the island’s agriculture sector suffers, its tourism industry soon feels the consequences

Valencia’s shores are paying the price of booming seasonal tourism

The superpower of seafood dominates more than just the high seas

Labour carries a heavy mantle of responsibility to this generation and those that will follow

French relationships with the environment are more practical compared with British attitudes, which tend to be more sentimental

Why do some people believe bees shouldn’t be able to fly? For the same reason others believe in Nessie or that climate change is a hoax

Something is rotten in our rivers and off our coasts, taking the country back to Victorian times

Thames Water is a national scandal, but in Wales a not-for-profit counterpart goes from strength to strength

Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms

A case brought by Swiss pensioners could be a turning point for the court

Banning cruise ships may reduce pollution on the water, but it also creates its own set of issues

The Eisbach river offers the city’s residents an eccentric gift: a surfing wave in landlocked Bavaria

Spain’s third city is becoming less environmentally friendly since the new council introduced its pro-car agenda

Belgians are meant to be recycling champions, but it’s a different story in Brussels