Environment

The natural environment, farming industries and the rural economy. Flood defence, disease and other natural threats. Climate change, green policy, innovation.

Get Norfolk Greener team on the steps of Norwich City Hall with their messages to the nine Norfolk MPs.

Act now! UEA students enlist Norfolk MPs for energy campaign

Jaywick Beach showing people sunbathing and paddling in the water.

Marking the million: More sewage, higher fines – Anglian Water punished again

David Attenborough giving a speech at COP26 in Glasgow, 2021

Save our wild isles

Carla Francome leading cyclists around Bishops Stortford

I want to ride my bicycle

Sewage outfall from Bury Wastewater Treatment Works flowing into a river.

Tories vote to continue sewage scandal

Earth Day 2023: showing our Earth some love

Coltishall High Street

20 minute communities exist, but are hard to create

Photo of astro turf with the words "No Plastic" superimposed on it

Soham doesn’t need artificial turf

Children holding signs saying "Save the Deben: no poop!!" and We [heart] the Deben - keep our rivers clean

Victory and disappointment for River Deben campaigners

Aerial view of fields divided by hedges

Murder or maintenance? Cherish your hedgerow and you’ll save money

Rosie Pearson with MP James Cartlidge (centre) and Bernard Jenkin MP. Photo credit: the author

Hope downturn over pylons U-turn

The Repair Café. Photo by The Repair Café, Transition Woodbridge. A bearded helper is repairing the flex of a green electric blanket. The owner of the blanket is sitting across the desk, wearing a yellow coat and smiling.

Repair Cafés – a community response to a crisis

Map showing pollution alert for sewage discharge on Southend Beach

Why storm sewage spills in dry weather?

Suffolk beach litter picking group

Cleaning up Britain

Water meter inset into a pipe, with a counter on it.

Anglian Water consults customers on plans for future droughts

Rochford tree at twilight. the campaigners are gathered around the foot of the tree in the rain, listening to a speaker.

Developers bulldoze our historic town

Tablet display of word cloud featuring "conspiracy"

The UK 100 Conspiracy

Graphic of a clock showing the earth, the hands are matches, with one lit approaching midnight, signifying the countdown to climate catastrophe. On either side of the clock are Lord Deben, Chair of the Climate Change Committee and Therese Coffey, environment minister

Lord Deben slams Coffey over net zero failures

A group of campaigners protesting sewage on Manningtree beach. Some are dressed as mermaids. Signs say: "cut the crap" and "no more motions in the oceans!"

“Let’s have safe water in Manningtree”

February 23, 2023

Engraving from Punch Magazine from 1858 titled "The Great Stink". It depicts a skeleton rowing down the Thames which is filled with dead animals.

Anglian Water’s ‘Great Stink’

February 22, 2023

A kitchen tap with water flowing from it.

No excuse for profiteering water price rises

February 12, 2023

A flock of cranes flies past a wind-farm in Germany.

Painting wind turbines black could help protect birds – as long as it doesn’t disrupt their migration

February 10, 2023

Honey bee on a dandelion

Is Brexit bad for the environment?

February 8, 2023

Several small wrecks lying in the mudflats on the River Orwell estuary.

The Orwell: a short but busy highway in Suffolk’s history

February 2, 2023

Small lake surrounded by trees in sunlight

I like the discipline of writing something every day

January 31, 2023

A block of four photos. 1. Young man picking apples. 2. A bull in a field. 3. Combine harvester in a wheat field. 4. Wildflower meadow

EA Sustain Festival: the latest thinking on food and farming

January 26, 2023

Woman's hands holding several oyster mushrooms

The magic of mushrooms

January 20, 2023

Man on a roof installing solar panels

Parliamentary Committee calls for national ‘war effort’ mobilisation

January 16, 2023

Waveney Climate Justice demonstrates in Lowestoft

Climate loss and damage

January 13, 2023

A woman using an electric charging point at Ranworth Broad next to her boat on the Norfolk Broads.

Cut your carbon emissions – drink local!

January 10, 2023

Brexit poisons everything

Are we getting Brexit done?

January 5, 2023

Essex salt marsh sausage installation.

Saving the Essex salt marshes

January 3, 2023

Cycling.

Thirty for 30 – how to reduce your carbon footprint

January 1, 2023

Snape

The Ore and the Alde: smugglers, a merman and the home of seaside chic

December 28, 2022

Common crane

Cranes: why Britain’s tallest bird just had its best breeding year since the 1600s

December 27, 2022

Tree protester dressed as Father Christmas

Christmas, tree, and campaigners

December 24, 2022

Bus on the Cambridgeshire guided busway

Cambridge transport: the only way to meet emissions obligations

December 22, 2022

Red cornfield poppies

What will 2023 hold for the UK environment?

December 22, 2022

An exterior photo of the Firstsite Art Gallery, Colchester.

A winter festival in East Anglia to look forward to

December 19, 2022

Deal Farm protest sign

South Norfolk Council vetoes the biodigester

December 18, 2022

Oysterman Tom Haward in his boat off Mersea.

Essex oysters sewage claims backed by Good Law Project

December 15, 2022

Elizabeth Line sign at Ilford Station

Does the new Elizabeth Line benefit rail users in East Anglia?

December 8, 2022

Bug hotel

Felixstowe leads in community-based conservation

December 6, 2022

Photo of the River Wid flowing over rocks, with its banks covered in trees and shrubs

Anglian Water fined for huge sewage discharge in Essex river

December 5, 2022

Hydrogen car.

The days of the hydrogen car are already over

December 4, 2022

Crop spraying, Suffolk

A farmer’s response to water pollution

December 2, 2022

Flooded ford at Shotesham Mill

COP27: success or failure?

November 27, 2022

River-Colne-sewage-outfall

Action to stop sewage in rivers: not anytime soon

November 23, 2022

Little Ouse Headwaters Project

Looking after the land

November 21, 2022

The large illuminated Gaia globe hangs from the ceiling of a darkened Chelmsford Cathedral.

Cathedral hosts huge Planet Earth to encourage thinking about the future

November 15, 2022

Split picture showing lush pasture on one side and drought on the other

It’s too late to stop global warming. We must adapt

November 13, 2022

Tree and protesters, from above

Rochford people sleep in a tree to save it from developers

November 11, 2022

A group of farmed chickens walking amongst hay

East Anglian farmers unhappy with bird flu support measures

November 7, 2022

A group of volunteers

New volunteering opportunities available on the Suffolk coast and nearby

November 5, 2022

Avian flu warning sign

Avian influenza scandal: is bio security for the birds?

November 1, 2022

Two protesters in front of Van Gogh's "Sunflower" painting at the National Gallery after throwing tomato soup at it (the painting is behind glass and was unharmed).

Just Stop Oil: do radical protests turn the public away from a cause?

October 23, 2022

Sea erosion damage at Cromer

Coastal erosion is unstoppable – so how do we live with it?

October 20, 2022

Little Ouse at Brandon

The Little Ouse River

October 17, 2022

Murmuration of starlings over a lake at sunset

Norfolk Wildlife Trust is looking for volunteer citizen scientists

October 11, 2022

A cluster of pylons at the Ferry Lane industrial area in Rainham, Essex

Pylon-blight campaign fury picks up pace

October 5, 2022

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