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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*This is part of an overall MOT4Rivers project led by the University of Stirling. There have been significant reductions in some pollutants (such as nitrogen and phosphorus) in recent decades but the ...

The environment in Wales supports significant economic sectors including agriculture, fisheries, tourism and forestry and is of importance to other policy areas including health and wellbeing, energy ...

The saltmarsh habitats across England, and the remainder of the UK, can remediate nutrients such as ammonium, nitrate and phosphate that may otherwise pollute the marine environment. Multiple ...

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 ...

Severe and extreme drought began for SSI-12 in winter 1933 in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with 1934 in extreme drought across much of the country. The east of Scotland, northern England and ...

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 ...

Scientists have been systematically taking environmental specimens from representative ecosystems in the United Kingdom for many years. These samples have been classified and stored appropriately so ...

Land and water managers are facing a challenging situation trying to manage our catchments and water resources to deliver a complex mix of competing demands. These include targets for improving water ...

The main objective of INTERCAFE was to improve European scientific knowledge of cormorant-fisheries interactions in the contexts of the interdisciplinary management of human:wildlife conflicts and of ...