Wet wipes containing plastic are being relegated to history after new laws to ban them were brought in today. Alex Mayer MP called it “a big win for our waterways and our pockets.” ...

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

South West Water has asked customers to help prevent blockages and fatbergs from forming as part of a new campaign. The water company said fats, oils and greases when mixed with items such as wet ...

A colossal 100-tonne “fatberg” has been successfully cleared from a west London sewer, Thames Water has revealed. The utility firm confirmed a specialist team spent over a month removing the massive ...

Thames Water has shared stomach–churning photos of an enormous 'fatberg' recovered from a sewer in Feltham. Weighing in at 100 tonnes, the congealed mass of wet wipes, fat, oil, and grease is the ...

Thames Waters says the "fatberg" weighed the equivalent weight of eight double-decker buses A blockage estimated to be around 100 tonnes has been cleared from a west London sewer. Thames Water said a ...

A blockage estimated to be around 100 tonnes has been cleared from a west London sewer. Thames Water said a specialist team took more than a month to remove the so-called "fatberg" that was more than ...

The City of Cape Town says more than 40 tonnes of rags, nappies and wet wipes were pulled from Manenberg’s sewer system in just two months, enough waste to threaten a collapse of the network and ...

Over 40 tonnes of rags, nappies, and wet wipes were removed from Manenberg, in Cape Town’s sewer system in just two months. The City of Cape Town used a bucketing system, a mechanical method for ...

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Over a week after Android 16 QPR1 went stable, Google is now beginning to roll out the “No Data Wipe” OTA update to Beta 3.1 testers. This over-the-air update lets you leave the Android Beta Program ...