As part of Thames21’s bathing water application for Wallingford, trained citizen scientists undertook a water quality monitoring programme that involved 20 weeks of sampling, assessing…
Environmental charity Thames21’s Reclaim Our Rivers* project has highlighted concentrations of harmful bacteria up to six times above the recommended standards for safe bathing in…
Rivers are extremely complex and important ecosystems. They provide countless services to people and have been at the centre of civilisations for millennia. River systems…
Environmental charity Thames21 and Enfield Council have been named as winners of the prestigious Ashden Awards for climate innovation for their joint work creating nature-based…
Unlike weather events such as hurricanes and storms, droughts are usually hard to predict and to identify their start and end. In a warming and…
While floods and other extreme weather events such as droughts aren’t exactly new, their frequency and intensity have been increasing in the past years due…
Environmental charity Thames21 has submitted two applications to the Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) in hopes to obtain bathing water designations for…
The River Thames plays a vital role in our landscape, culture, and economy. It’s the longest river in England and the second longest in…
We know how vital nutrients are for all ecosystems, both terrestrial and aquatic – even if we don’t know exactly the reason behind it. Nutrients…
A new online tool which highlights where the opportunities are to install nature-based solutions, such as wetlands, to tackle road runoff pollution before it ends…
