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 ...

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 ...

Outlining benefits and trade-offs of land-based actions to mitigate climate change ...

A new unified and comprehensive classification coding system for all terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats in the UK has been published. UKHab, which is free to use, has been published by the UK ...

Scientific data confirm British farmers’ fears that this is the worst harvest for at least 25 years, following a year of extreme weather. Analyses by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) have ...

Laser scanning shows a total of 390,000 km of hedgerows (1-6 metres tall) exist on field boundaries in England – enough to go round the world almost 10 times. These important habitats support ...

It is widely accepted that we are experiencing climate change. Though it is challenging to predict its future impacts, we expect to see changes to weather patterns and the frequency of extreme events, ...

Around one in six species are at risk of becoming extinct in the UK, according to the most comprehensive study of our national wildlife. The latest State of Nature report, which assessed the long-term ...

Protected natural areas of the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for ...

Nick Everard, a senior hydrometric scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, explains that an innovative project is investigating how very high-resolution videos shot from space could ...

‘Eco-friendly’ LED streetlights are even more harmful for insect populations than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a new study has shown. The negative impacts of light pollution on ...