Threats posed to a city's natural chalk streams are to be addressed by experts. It is estimated that 85% of the world's chalk ...

Another heatwave and a continuous run of record-breaking hottest days underline a critical issue: Greater Cambridge faces an ...

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 ...

Pressure is growing on Cambridge Water to introduce a hosepipe ban, but the company currently has no plans for one.

Many chalk aquifers – the source of chalk streams – are sadly polluted by nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers spread on farmland.

The Greater Cambridge Chalk Stream Project is a collaboration between Cambridge City Council and Anglia Ruskin University ...

To understand how dual porosity transport affects contaminant fate within the chalk aquifer. To determine key factors controlling rates of fuel oxygenate (MTBE and TAME) and BTEX biodegradation. The ...

The East of England is the driest region in the UK and was declared to be in drought 10 months ago. In Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire, most water is pumped from an underground chalk aquifer ...

Deducing the intrinsic potential for MTBE degradation in the Chalk aquifer under field conditions. Identifying whether degradation occurs at environmentally significant rates for site management using ...

HS2 has admitted losing a huge quantity of a potentially highly polluting substance into a chalk aquifer during the construction of a ventilation shaft for a tunnel on the high-speed rail link. The ...

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.