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Sandra Laville

Sandra Laville is environment correspondent for the Guardian

November 2024

  • Swimmers in the river surrounded by trees and fields

    Record number of English bathing sites classified as having poor water quality

  • John Prescott smiling with a blurred protest placard visible in the background

    John Prescott, a ‘critical force’ in climate policy, will be missed at Cop29

  • Plastic waste spilled on a beach with waves in the background

    Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’

  • A stretch of the River Severn with the Malvern Hills in the background

    ‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the River Severn?

  • UK’s intensive farming hotspots have 79 times more chickens than people, data shows

  • Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says

  • Climate breakdown will hit global growth by a third, say central banks

  • Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

October 2024

  • A sign near the bathing area of the River Wharf in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Tests in 2023 showed the river had been polluted by effluent from storm overflows and runoff from livestock farms.

    ‘It won’t wash’: Environment secretary’s bid to cosy up to water pollution protesters backfires

  • Sewage in a river

    UK rivers contain ‘cocktail of chemicals and stimulants’ endangering aquatic life

  • Water overspill at a reservoir in Cornwall.

    Water industry ownership should be decided by citizens’ assembly, new bill says

  • Swimmers at Ferris Meadow Lake

    Surrey swimming lake could close amid plan to allow in polluted Thames water

  • English water system singled out for criticism by UN special rapporteur

  • Calls for failing English water firms to be taken over using special administration

  • Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say

September 2024

  • Sewage in the River Thames in Weybridge, Surrey.

    Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’

  • A field of brightly coloured dahlias

    Budding market: hopes of a revival in UK cut-flower production

  • Teddington lock and weir on the River Thames

    Labour in apparent disarray over Thames cleanup plan

  • Gulfstream G650 business jet

    Superyacht and private jet tax could raise £2bn a year, say campaigners

August 2024

  • Sewage floats on the River Thames in Datchet, Berkshire, in April

    UK rivers and beaches have been heaped with pollution for years – when will we talk about restoration?

    The penalties reflect the failings of the Environment Agency and Ofwat as much as the water companies
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