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Part Two: Canals Reborn – Threads of Nature and Resilience

Part Two: Canals Reborn – Threads of Nature and Resilience

How Britain’s waterways are flowing back into purpose—through wildlife, climate adaptation, and quiet connection

Shaun Warren
Hosepipe Ban Hits Yorkshire: What It Means and What You Can Do

Hosepipe Ban Hits Yorkshire: What It Means and What You Can Do

Britain has entered the summer of 2025 with an all-too-familiar headline: a hosepipe ban. Yorkshire is the first region to impose restrictions this year, with Kent and Sussex expected to follow suit in the coming weeks.

Shaun Warren
Green and Blue: How Developers Can Meet Biodiversity Net Gain with Better Water Design

Green and Blue: How Developers Can Meet Biodiversity Net Gain with Better Water Design

For decades, urban expansion in the UK has often come at the expense of nature. Habitats paved over, wetlands drained, watercourses boxed into culverts, all in the name of growth.

Shaun Warren
A Pipe Dream: Why Millions in the UK Still Can’t Trust Their Tap Water

A Pipe Dream: Why Millions in the UK Still Can’t Trust Their Tap Water

When most people in the UK turn on their tap, they expect clean, safe drinking water—nothing more, nothing less.

Shaun Warren
Fête de l’Eau: Reviving France’s River Traditions

Fête de l’Eau: Reviving France’s River Traditions

Continuing our series looking at the World's water Festivals

Shaun Warren
Fête de l’Eau: Reviving France’s River Traditions

Fête de l’Eau: Reviving France’s River Traditions

Continuing our series looking at the World's water Festivals

Shaun Warren
A Pipe Dream: Why Millions in the UK Still Can’t Trust Their Tap Water

A Pipe Dream: Why Millions in the UK Still Can’t Trust Their Tap Water

When most people in the UK turn on their tap, they expect clean, safe drinking water—nothing more, nothing less.

Shaun Warren
Green and Blue: How Developers Can Meet Biodiversity Net Gain with Better Water Design

Green and Blue: How Developers Can Meet Biodiversity Net Gain with Better Water Design

For decades, urban expansion in the UK has often come at the expense of nature. Habitats paved over, wetlands drained, watercourses boxed into culverts, all in the name of growth.

Shaun Warren
Hosepipe Ban Hits Yorkshire: What It Means and What You Can Do

Hosepipe Ban Hits Yorkshire: What It Means and What You Can Do

Britain has entered the summer of 2025 with an all-too-familiar headline: a hosepipe ban. Yorkshire is the first region to impose restrictions this year, with Kent and Sussex expected to follow suit in the coming weeks.

Shaun Warren
Part Two: Canals Reborn – Threads of Nature and Resilience

Part Two: Canals Reborn – Threads of Nature and Resilience

How Britain’s waterways are flowing back into purpose—through wildlife, climate adaptation, and quiet connection

Shaun Warren
Greywater Gains: Is Onsite Water Recycling Ready for UK Construction Sites?

Greywater Gains: Is Onsite Water Recycling Ready for UK Construction Sites?

Construction sites are among the most resource-intensive workplaces in the UK, with water use often flying under the radar.

Shaun Warren
The Hidden Cost of the Cloud: Tackling the Carbon Footprint of Our Digital Lives

The Hidden Cost of the Cloud: Tackling the Carbon Footprint of Our Digital Lives

In an age where the tap of a screen replaces the rustle of paper and video calls substitute flights, it’s tempting to think our digital lifestyles are inherently greener. But the truth is more nuanced

Shaun Warren
Waterways of Industry and Intimacy – A Journey through Time

Waterways of Industry and Intimacy – A Journey through Time

It is a curious thing to move at walking pace through the heart of England, not by foot or by horse, but aboard a narrowboat nudging its way southwards on water once thick with coal dust and commerce.

Shaun Warren
Britain Parched: How Drought is Redrawing the Map of Water Security

Britain Parched: How Drought is Redrawing the Map of Water Security

The UK has witnessed an unusually warm and dry spring in 2025—often touted as the driest since 1893. The Met Office confirms spring as one of the sunniest, warmest, and sixth driest on record.

Shaun Warren
Mud Matters: How the UK’s Saltmarshes Could Supercharge Climate Action

Mud Matters: How the UK’s Saltmarshes Could Supercharge Climate Action

UK saltmarshes, those muddy tidal wetlands crisscrossed with rivulets and thick marsh grass, are emerging as surprisingly potent climate warriors.

Shaun Warren
Water, Waste and the Power of Performance: Why Local Theatres Are Staging a Green Revolution

Water, Waste and the Power of Performance: Why Local Theatres Are Staging a Green Revolution

When you think of climate action, you might picture wind turbines, electric cars, or Extinction Rebellion protests. You probably don’t think of pantomimes or Shakespeare.

Shaun Warren
Heat in the Deep: What the UK's Prolonged Marine Heatwave Means for Sea Life, Fishers—and Us

Heat in the Deep: What the UK's Prolonged Marine Heatwave Means for Sea Life, Fishers—and Us

It’s only June, yet the seas around Britain are already swimming in summer heat. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) off the coasts of Cornwall, Devon, western Ireland, and Wales are registering 2–4 °C above the seasonal average.

Shaun Warren
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