The system for assessing the health of England’s rivers states just 14% are in good ecological health but an independent report for Defra says this masks improvements in freshwater biodiversity – and ...

Restoring Our Seascapes, a report published by Blue Marine and involving UKCEH scientists, highlights the importance of coastal habitats around the UK. It lays out clear recommendations for UK and ...

Science challenge Species moved intentionally or unintentionally by humans from one part of the world to a new region where the species didn’t previously occur are termed non-native species. A ...

UK-SCAPE Resources containing videos and highlights of papers from projects now receiving UK-SCAPE funding.

Because this enables us to assess the current status of the environment and to understand the causes of change. Long-term national monitoring is important for assessing the status of the environment ...

Land use modelling within SPEED responds to changes in both the five downscaled shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) and the bias-corrected CHESS-SCAPE climate datasets for four Representative ...

The National River Flow Archive (NRFA), based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, is the UK’s official record of river flow data. We collate, curate and provide access to data from over 1,600 ...

Air quality using sensors to measure pollutants and greenhouse gases, to help predict impacts on humans and ecosystems. These projects are now part of our five-year NC-UK programme. A comprehensive ...

UK-SCAPE is creating a collaborative data science framework (DSF) for combining data, models and analytics tools from across the environmental science community so that many research questions can be ...

Enhance and integrate data on air, soil, biodiversity, and water. Improve our understanding of the consequences of interventions in the UK landscape. Help us to protect and enhance the environment ...

Science challenge In order to manage UK land for a carbon neutral future and net biodiversity gain, detailed, accurate knowledge of the land surface is essential. Project summary UKCEH's Land Cover ...

Understanding soil functions and the ecosystem services delivered is key to maintaining healthy soil. Seven major soil functions and the Ecosystem Services they provide (EC, 2006) following the ...