The new report by the PEER network focuses on the lack of understanding of the interactions between biodiversity and global trade, which the authors say must be addressed to inform more sustainable ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. Partnering with Aberdeen Group Charitable Trust on ...

Invasive animals outcompete or eat insects while invasive vegetation replaces native plants that insects feed upon. The study ...

Climate change will increase temperatures and change rainfall across England, Wales and Scotland. In turn, this will modify patterns of river flow and groundwater recharge, affecting the availability ...

UKCEH has a long history of creating innovative information products. We take a flexible approach to licensing to meet the needs of commercial, non-commercial and academic customers. You can use our ...

With ever increasing interest in the benefits that the natural environment provides to people, there is a need to know where our natural capital is. Natural England and UKCEH have collaborated on this ...

Financing large-scale restoration is becoming more viable, as businesses become more motivated to voluntarily offset CO 2 emissions via the voluntary carbon market. UKCEH is leading a consortium ...

Microbes are central to all life on Earth due to their huge diversity in form and function. In soils, one teaspoon of topsoil contains around 1 billion individual microscopic cells and around 10,000 ...

The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and the earlier Flood Studies Report (FSR) are a set of methods and associated data to enable recognised standard national methods for rainfall and flood estimation ...

Nine varieties of rice are being trialled in the Cambridgeshire Fens, including risotto, basmati and sushi. Scientists and farmers are exploring the best ways to tackle climate change, food security ...

The UKCEH Land Cover Maps (LCMs) map UK land cover. They do this by describing the physical material on the surface of the United Kingdom providing an uninterrupted national dataset of land cover ...

This list presents all the reliable recordings of freshwater and terrestrial cyanobacteria and photosynthetic algae in the British Isles (with the exception of some diatoms). Brackish water and ...