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Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds

Urban areas host 80% of England’s homes at high risk of flooding, study finds

England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn

England. The government’s climate advisers warned in a [major report](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/uk-built-for-climate-that-no-longer-exists-and-needs-urgent-changes-to-survive-global-heating-report-warns) that drought would become more frequent as a result of global heating and more reservoirs must also be built to avoid

Farage’s Clacton-on-Sea constituency worst ‘tree desert’ in England, research shows

England, with the highest proportion of urban residents – 98.2% – living in neighbourhoods with critically low access to trees. The research, which covered the whole of the UK, found a significant north-south divide, with

‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground

England primary in Barnet, north [London](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london), used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that the children couldn’t be dismissed from the playground,” says Maccie

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

England, as part of the Ealing Beaver Project. The beavers that were released are part of an unlikely effort to bring back a vanished species and help Britain adapt to a very modern problem: climate

England’s poorest communities face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds

urban divide, but by extreme environmental disparities within towns and cities, and new “loopholes” for developers will exacerbate it, it says. Biodiversity net gain rules, introduced in 2024, made it mandatory in England for most