The Canal & River Trust is predicting that warmer wetter summers bought about by climate change are making the fight to stop Britain’s canals from becoming choked by invasive weeds more challenging. The trust’s annual summer programme to tackle the weed across its 2,000 miles of waterways is well underway – with volunteers, staff and […]
Environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, in partnership with the Environment Agency, has launched its #PennywortAlert scheme for 2023 as it urges the public to report sightings of the harmful aquatic weed, floating pennywort, on waterways. Floating pennywort (Hydocotyle ranunculoides) can grow up to an astonishing 20cm per day in late summer. It forms dense mats […]