Salmon from the chalk streams of southern England are genetically unique, researchers have discovered. Salmon from the chalk streams of southern England are genetically unique, researchers have ...

The world has fewer than 300 chalk streams — and England has most of them. These streams occur only where chalk bedrock meets the Earth’s surface, making them globally rare. Their stable, cool, ...

A plan to restore chalk streams in England, a vital type of river that plays host to species such as kingfishers, mayflies and dragonflies, may take decades despite millions of pounds worth of ...

Until last spring I had always regarded the storied English chalk streams as the angling equivalent of the leather-bound set of Thomas Carlyle's works collecting dust on my bookshelf: something I ...

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A historic chalk stream immortalised by a Poet Laureate has been granted ‘personhood’ by a council, giving it the right to sue. The River Loddon, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, will be recognised as a ...

A "ambitious" project to restore a 4.3-mile (7km) stretch of a rare chalk river to its original course has been completed. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said the "landmark" scheme, on the River ...

Salmon from the chalk streams of southern England are genetically unique, researchers have discovered. The fish are classified as Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), but research by the University of ...