The world has fewer than 300 chalk streams — and England has most of them. These streams occur only where chalk bedrock meets the Earth’s surface, making them globally rare. Their stable, cool, ...

England’s chalk streams are internationally important habitats, but like many nature-rich places they are facing a host of pressures including more extreme weather such as drought. At Herts and ...

In this guest article, David Eddy examines Yorkshire Water’s response to plans to drill for gas at Foxholes in North Yorkshire, above one of the region’s main sources of drinking ...

Surveying shows one of England’s important chalk streams has suffered “a decade of decline”, campaigners warn as they call for more action to protect the globally rare habitat. Monitoring at five ...

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