Workshop Explores Modelling Land Use Options For Climate, Food And Nature Challenges These cookies are not required for the ...

Lord Cameron of Dillington leaves his role as Chair of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) on 30 November, after announcing his retirement last year. This follows five years in the role.

Loch Leven is the largest shallow eutrophic lake in lowland Scotland (surface area 13.7km 2, mean depth 3.9m). It is an excellent example of a lake that supplies a wide range of ecosystem services and ...

The number for this episode is 115. This relates to the fact that Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic was patented 115 years ago. Catch up on previous Counting the Earth episodes and never ...

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 UKCEH Land Cover Maps (LCMs) map UK land cover. They do this by describing the physical material on the surface of the United Kingdom providing an uninterrupted national dataset of land cover ...

Financing large-scale restoration is becoming more viable, as businesses become more motivated to voluntarily offset CO 2 emissions via the voluntary carbon market. UKCEH is leading a consortium ...

With ever increasing interest in the benefits that the natural environment provides to people, there is a need to know where our natural capital is. Natural England and UKCEH have collaborated on this ...

Here you can explore the kind of roles we recruit for, search our latest vacancies, learn more about what it's like to work at UKCEH, and find out about the many benefits of joining our team. Every ...

We harness data and digital technologies to provide solutions to environmental challenges, and are a major custodian of environmental datasets. The long-term environmental data hosted by UKCEH inform ...

Why is hedgerow management important? Hedgerows provide key semi-natural habitat and resources for wildlife in agricultural landscapes. Hedgerow management can substantially alter the condition of ...

Blooms of algae in freshwaters can produce potent toxins, potentially making water bodies unsafe for recreational activities and restricting their access to the public and their suitability as a ...