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 ...

We are pleased to announce that the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset is now available. This contains publicly available daily ...

Thousands of hectares of farmland in northern Ukraine that were considered too dangerous for cultivation following the Chornobyl disaster almost 40 years ago can safely return to agricultural ...

Hardly a month goes by without a heatwave occurring somewhere on our planet: January? Australia. February? Brazil. March? Central Asia. And so on. These prolonged periods of intense heat stress are ...

A combination of climate change and our increasing use of water is likely to result in significantly drier rivers during English summers by the end of the century, causing potential water scarcity ...

Professor Laurence Jones, Wetlands Grasslands and Croplands science group leader at UKCEH, shows how planning tools can help design better outcomes for young people in cities... Young people care ...

New research is investigating how climate and land-use change, as well as government policies, will affect the spread of some diseases that pose a particular threat to humans, animals or plants. The ...

The most comprehensive scientific review of the global nitrogen cycle has outlined 150 ‘win-win’ measures to significantly reduce nitrogen pollution while saving billions in costs across a range of ...

Ambitious targets were set by the Environment Act 2021 of halting the decline in species populations by 2030 and to increase populations by at least 10% on 2030 levels by 2042. This made England the ...

Trials have shown that adding relatively small amounts of biochar to soil can significantly increase the amount of nutrients essential for crop growth, boosting crop yield. The charcoal-like substance ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has released updated Land Cover Maps, which depict broad habitats across our landscape based on high-resolution satellite imagery. The maps, representing UK land ...