Aquatic life could be struggling to survive and bacteria and viruses harmful to human health may be thriving because the ...

The lagoons sit alongside the River Lea, which flows between trees over gravel beds where water crowfoot – a plant critical to chalk streams – grows. Wildlife in the river include barbel and ...

Our chalk streams are unique – there are only about 200 chalk streams ... Our rivers and streams, when they’re healthy, are home to all kinds of animals, fish, insects and plants – from water voles, ...

The Black Bourn is a chalk stream that rises south of Bury St. Edmunds. In places it's all but dried up causing fish, invertebrates and plants to die. The difficulty is, since the last drought in ...