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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) – ...

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 ...