In September 2024, at the end of his visit to UKCEH, we interviewed Joseph Izang Ibrahim, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Joseph is developing a butterfly monitoring protocol suited to ...

Scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have been sharing knowledge about research at our leading monitoring facilities with European partners. Matt Jones and Amy Pickard tell us more... A ...

The infographic below illustrates how CEH delivered a large-scale experimental field trial to assess the impacts of neonicotinoid seed treatments on honeybees and wildbees across Europe.

The Plynlimon Research Catchments host a demonstrator site to test the hypothesis that application of basalt rock dust onto upland grassland will enhance the long-term capture of carbon in the soil ...

I am honoured to take on the leadership of an organisation that is actively engaged in tackling some of humanity’s most pressing challenges. Since taking on this role in June 2023, I have been ...

The drought of the 1920s was mostly focussed in England and south Wales with severe flow deficits beginning in summer 1921 across southern England for SSI-12. For SSI-3, however, 1920 ended with ...

Loch Flemington is a shallow (surface area 15ha, mean depth c. 0.75m, maximum depth 2.35m) nutrient-enriched lake in northern Scotland. Algal blooms at the site are common and fish deaths have been ...

In its dairy herd, the scope for UK grown feeds to improve milk yield and quality under conventional and organic winter diets is being evaluated The SIP at Nafferton is investigating using UK grown ...

The Yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, also known as the Asian hornet, is a highly effective predator of insects including honeybees and other pollinators. Originating from Asia, it was ...

In June 2014 TREE participants from NERC-CEH and University of Salford visited the Universadad de Extremadura (Caceres, Spain) to discuss collaboration on field sampling in Spain in order to help ...

What is the effect of different land management interventions on water quality? Will what I’m doing provide secondary or wider benefits in the catchment for carbon, biodiversity or other ecosystem ...

July to October 1972 was a dry period, but a rather wetter period followed. Going into 1973, January, February and March were generally dry, and then most regions saw rainfall deficits during June and ...