Lead author Professor Christopher Taylor, a meteorologist at UKCEH, said: “Thunderstorms can sometimes suddenly appear, seemingly ‘out of thin air’. But our research has shown that where they are ...

The land surface is not passive within the climate system. It doesn't simply respond to changes in meteorological conditions or uses, such as deforestation. Instead, land changes can also feed back ...

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The project estimated national changes in river flow indicators using the perturbation method with climate change factors extracted from the Future Flow Climate projections for the 2050s for each of ...

The UK lacks coordinated projections of how environmental drivers and their impacts will change simultaneously over the next decades. SPEED has produced spatially-explicit projections of drivers under ...

In Summer 2025, the flood estimation team have released an update to the statistical flood frequency estimation methods (the FEH methods), including changes to QMED estimation, donor transfer, the ...

Nine varieties of rice are being trialled in the Cambridgeshire Fens, including risotto, basmati and sushi. Scientists and farmers are exploring the best ways to tackle climate change, food security ...

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 ...

The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasising the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists who have analysed that summer’s events ...

Scientists are using cutting-edge technology along Britain’s 20,000-mile rail network, as part of Network Rail’s new action plan for sustainable vegetation management. The UK Centre for Ecology & ...

‘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 ...

New research shows that over one third of all vertebrate species on Earth are used by people and this is causing disproportionate impacts on ecosystems and the beneficial services that nature provides ...