In a combined effort to encourage people to make a splash for wildlife, the wildlife trusts and the Royal Horticultural Society are calling on people to put a pond in their gardens, writes Andy ...

A step-by-step look at excavating a deep one-acre pond, highlighting machinery use, techniques, and the challenges of ...

Digging ponds in the countryside can deliver “unprecedented” gains for nature, experts said after a study showed they significantly boosted rare plants. A nine-year project found that creating just 20 ...

HOOK, England (Reuters) - Two British brothers got so bored by the coronavirus lockdown that they are digging an 8-metre (26 ft) rainwater swimming pond in their parents' back garden. Adam Horton, 19, ...

May is pond time, or at least the time when ponds come into their own. It is also a great time to make a garden pond, since the weather is warming up and plants – and fish – can grow speedily. There ...

The first swallows have made landfall in the UK, fanning out over the greening landscape. The early arrivals, generally males, are a streak of electric blue in the spring sunshine. These heralds of a ...

Switzerland has reversed the decline of more than half of endangered frogs, toads and newts in one region, research finds. After conservationists dug hundreds of new ponds in the canton of Aargau, ...

When Chris and Lesley Chawner took on an unpromising, sloping plot in Cheshire, their plan was to create a water garden. Fast-forward 16 years and the breathtaking landscape is testimony to their ...