Over the past 50 years, England has suffered lots of droughts - some of the more notable ones include 1975-76, 1989-92, 1995-96, 2004-06, 2011-12 and recently 2018, 2022 and 2025. But what does this mean, how does the Environment Agency …
John Curtin with recent flood foundation course graduates Penny Cox and Aoife Harte [Right].14 years ago I led the creation of our first flood risk engineering degree programme. Today sees...
...on International Women’s Day the Environment Agency will host two of the Cross Government events, welcoming colleagues from Departments and Agencies to our events in Bristol and Exeter. We will...
We don’t offer spa treatments to the general public here in the Environment Agency, but we do provide the service to some local muscles (sorry, typo, ‘Mussels’). Once a year we send our intrepid officers out to chosen beaches to …
...the ever increasing risk of flooding. Following the devastating winter flooding of 2015/16 we joined forces to publish the property flood resilience action plan. It’s recommendations represent a significant commitment...
This is a guest blog by Rob Hughes from the Angling Trust, and England carp angling team manager. Some of the more mature readers will remember the hilarious sketch from Monty Python’s famous film The Life Of Brian. Younger readers may …
Last November I blogged about our work on new nuclear power stations and my team of nuclear regulators who are assessing the reactor designs. We are working closely with the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) …
Calverton Fish farm near Nottingham is a crucial part of the Environment Agency’s toolkit for improving fisheries around the country. As the weather turns colder and many anglers start thinking about hanging their rods up for the winter, staff at …
...call after suffering ‘catastrophic damage’ to its hull. All 26 crew were airlifted to safety in a rescue operation co-ordinated by UK coastguards. Force 11 northerly winds made it impossible...
The Governor of the Bank of England has highlighted that one obstacle to a smooth adjustment to a low carbon future has been the absence of information to help make a market in climate-related financial risk. As he has observed, …
I work as a fisheries specialist in the Solent and South Downs team. The Environment Agency and our partners recently set out a long-term plan to help conserve salmon stocks and this is an important part of my job. The …
