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 ...

Changes in winter flow show a mixed pattern in England and Wales with drier, similar or wetter signals within -20% to +40% change – one scenario up to 60% in a small region. In contrast flows in ...

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 ...

At UKCEH, we are dedicated stewards of environmental data. Our science infrastructures and long-term monitoring programmes and resulting data, tools and models enable researchers across the UK to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...