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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 project will demonstrate how colonialism has shaped and continues to shape the ecology of the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). British colonialist policies have had, and continue to have, hugely ...

Our next course will be in Edinburgh! UKCEH Edinburgh, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 0QB, UK. This course is sold out! Please express your interest here so we can fix more dates! We also run ...

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 ...

*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 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 project estimated national changes in river flow indicators using the perturbation method with climate change factors extracted from the Future Flow Climate projections for the 2050s for each of ...

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 ...