English rivers were pumped with emergency oxygen in a last-ditch effort to save fish from dying on almost 100 occasions in the past five years, New Scientist can reveal. Rivers can become deoxygenated ...

Researchers have found widespread contamination of English rivers with two neurotoxic pesticides commonly used in veterinary flea products: fipronil and the neonicotinoid imidacloprid. Researchers at ...

A prehistoric fish has been seen in some English rivers for the first time since the 1800s in the wake of conservation work, the Environment Agency said. Lamprey, snake-like creatures that were around ...

English rivers are a dangerous “chemical cocktail” of sewage, farm waste and plastics after decades of underfunding water infrastructure and pollution monitoring, according to a parliamentary inquiry.

Fly fishing on the River Lambourn, one of the English rivers mentioned in the University of Birmingham study, Nov. 9, 2014 (Photo by Annabelle Farley) BIRMINGHAM, England, UK, July 20, 2018 (ENS) – ...

Sewage was spilt from storm overflow drains into England’s rivers, lakes and seas at least once every two minutes last year, new figures show. In 2025, the Environment Agency recorded nearly 300,000 ...

Species that is critically endangered in Britain is spotted in Mersey, Bollin and Goyt rivers in north-west Young Atlantic salmon have been seen in three rivers in north-west England for the first ...

IN the review of Peters and Panning's “Monograph of the Mitten Crab” published in NATURE of June 9, 1934, an account was given of the invasion of European rivers by this Chinese species, and the ...