News
Last updated: April 28, 2024.
Our website has been bringing you the latest UK river headlines since 1999. If you use RSS (a way of automatically being notified when websites you follow are updated), why not subscribe to our river news feed? Feel free to serve news on your own website using our feed, but please would you be kind enough to make a link back to our website if you do so (it helps other people to discover us too).
The latest news items start on our home page and gradually move to the news archive pages. You'll find older news stories going all the way back to 1995 further down this page.
Photo: The River Test near Mottisfont, Hampshire.
Latest news
Tired of waiting for us to update our news headlines? You can get the latest river and environment news yourself with these handy news links.
Latest UK rivers news
- Environment Agency (England & Wales) press releases
- BBC News: recent UK news stories mentioning "river"
- BBC News: recent UK news stories mentioning "water"
- Twitter: Latest tweets mentioning "uk" and "rivers" (throws up a lot of noise, but occasional gems too).
Latest world rivers news
- Environmental News Network: search stories for "rivers"
- NewsNow water news page
- Rivernet from the European Rivers Network
UK and Ireland environment news
- The Independent - climate and environment news
- The Guardian: Environment
- Belfast Telegraph: environment stories
- Defra news releases
- Natural England press releases
- Natural History Museum: Latest news
UK environment news from the NGOs (non-government organizations)
- Buglife News
- CPRE press releases
- Friends of the Earth: Latest
- Greenpeace: Latest updates
- National Trust: latest news
- Freshwater Habitats Trust (news items are posted on the home page)
- Surfers Against Sewage: updates
- RSPB News
- The Wildlife Trusts: press releases
- Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust: News
- WWF UK News
- WWF Worldwide News
Worldwide environment news
- NewsNow environment section: updated every few minutes.
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Press releases.
- European Commission press releases: all topics, not just environment.
News archive
Our news archive contains river-related stories from the UK press dating all the way back to 1995.
- 2014–2023 (we were taking a break)
- 2013
- 2012 (October 2012 onwards)
- 2012: From November 2011 to October 2012, our news was published entirely on Facebook. You can find old items by scrolling back through our Facebook wall. Sorry this is a bit of a nuisance.
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005 (we were taking a break).
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 1995-2000
