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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haweswater is a reservoir in the Mardale valley in Cumbria. It was formed in the 1940s when a dam was built to merge the two original lakes: Low Water and High Water. The water rose 28.9m, submerging ...

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 ...

At times of flood and drought, water managers need good estimates of current and future rainfall amounts and soil wetness. The Joint Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research (JCHMR) brought together ...

The Whim experimental bog is a globally unique study of how peatland ecosystems respond to different levels and forms of nitrogen (N) deposition. In operation since 2002, the field manipulation ...