Sandra Laville

A mountain of rubbish sits behind a metal fence in the village of Bickershaw, where it has remained for more than 20 months.

Paul Powlesland told he acted illegally after organising volunteers to remove litter, weed and silt from River Roding

Exclusive: £75m publicity drive will ask people to treat water as precious resource and cut daily use by 28 litres

Sandra Laville Environment correspondent The month of June was the warmest in England on record, driven by a searing heatwave in the final

Sandra Laville and Madeleine Finlay Imagine a deafening abundance of birdsong so loud it wakes your children at dawn; the chirrup of house

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform

Critics accuse ministers of failing to take control of nature crisis and leaving it to private landowners to act voluntarily

Pippa Neill and Sandra Laville The government's plan to protect and restore nature in England by 2030 has been condemned as “pathetic” and “completely insufficient” in the face of the spiralling environmental crisis.

Analysis reveals stark socioeconomic divide, with schools with highest free school meal eligibility having fewer trees