25th November 2024
It’s the season of giving! Why not give back to nature this holiday season? As an environmental charity, we depend on donations from people like you to help us bring...
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29th August 2024
Across the UK, our waterways are in crisis. Pollution from farming, sewage, industrial and domestic waste, and more, is turning our rivers toxic - harming people and wildlife. The question...
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19th August 2024
Our water test kit enables everyone to test the water quality of their local rivers, lakes and streams. You can help measure your local water quality as part of the...
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12th August 2024
The Great UK WaterBlitz is the UK's biggest citizen science freshwater testing campaign. The first WaterBlitz took place over the weekend of 7-10 June 2024. More than 2,600 people went...
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7th August 2024
Water pollution is a huge challenge for freshwater in the UK, impacting our rivers, streams and lakes and the wildlife that call them home. In June, over 2,600 people measured...
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28th June 2024
Earthwatch helped campaign group, River Action, to analyse data collected by citizen scientists at sites around Henley on the River Thames. The testing, ahead of the Henley Regatta, revealed high...
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9th May 2024
A new report by the Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) has found that: most of England’s water bodies are in an unsatisfactory state. While levels of some individual pollutants have...
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17th April 2024
This Citizen Science Month, we are thrilled to announce that our FreshWater Watch community groups have collected over 40,000 data sets across the globe. For more than a decade, our...
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13th February 2024
As a proud partner of the Evenlode Catchment Partnership (ECP), we join the celebrations of its 10th anniversary. Earlier this year, we were thrilled to see a local primary school...
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