Liverpool's waterfront, with its mix of modern high-rise office blocks and the Edwardian Baroque Royal Liver Building, from across the River Mersey Image source, Getty/Peter Chadwick LRPS
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Old landfill and industrial sites have been major sources of the chemicals in rivers like the Mersey

ByEsme StallardSenior climate and science reporter
  • Published49 minutes ago

Levels of the two most toxic "forever" chemicals in England's rivers have dropped by nearly a third over the last decade, according to new figures from the Environment Agency (EA).

The decline in the chemicals, PFOS and PFOA, has been put down to stricter restrictions on their use in products after increasing evidence emerged of their damaging impact on human health and the environment.