Some 85% of saltmarsh in the UK has been lost since the mid-19th century due to agriculture, development, pollution and climate change. A new report by WWF and Aviva, based on the UKCEH research, ...

UKCEH Director of Science, Dr Doug Wilson OBE, comments: "The new science areas enhance our ability to conduct world-class science and reinforce our commitment to the vital work of the environmental ...

We are pleased to announce that the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset is now available. This contains publicly available daily ...

Thousands of hectares of farmland in northern Ukraine that were considered too dangerous for cultivation following the Chornobyl disaster almost 40 years ago can safely return to agricultural ...

Hardly a month goes by without a heatwave occurring somewhere on our planet: January? Australia. February? Brazil. March? Central Asia. And so on. These prolonged periods of intense heat stress are ...

UKCEH climate modeller Dr Chris Huntingford is part of a team awarded £5 million by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to investigate early warning signs of climate 'tipping points'.

A combination of climate change and our increasing use of water is likely to result in significantly drier rivers during English summers by the end of the century, causing potential water scarcity ...

The latest episode of our Counting the Earth podcast is here! Listen now. Microplastics are everywhere—tiny plastic particles that permeate our soil, water, food, drinking supplies, and even our ...

Professor Laurence Jones, Wetlands Grasslands and Croplands science group leader at UKCEH, shows how planning tools can help design better outcomes for young people in cities... Young people care ...

This interactive two-day course over four mornings will empower you with critical machine learning knowledge and skills. It will give a strong foundation in two widely used machine learning algorithms ...

Ambitious targets were set by the Environment Act 2021 of halting the decline in species populations by 2030 and to increase populations by at least 10% on 2030 levels by 2042. This made England the ...

Trials have shown that adding relatively small amounts of biochar to soil can significantly increase the amount of nutrients essential for crop growth, boosting crop yield. The charcoal-like substance ...