The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. A study by UKCEH, published in Nature, is set to ...

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 have a long history of investigating, monitoring and modelling environmental change, generating evidence-driven solutions and services to address complex environmental challenges. Sign up to our ...

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 ...

Citizen science is defined as the involvement of volunteers in science, so it has the dual benefits of making a contribution to ‘real’ science, while also engaging many people with science. There are ...

With ever increasing interest in the benefits that the natural environment provides to people, there is a need to know where our natural capital is. Natural England and UKCEH have collaborated on this ...

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 ...

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 ...

UKCEH has a long history of creating innovative information products. We take a flexible approach to licensing to meet the needs of commercial, non-commercial and academic customers. You can use our ...

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 Yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, also known as the Asian hornet, is a highly effective predator of insects including honeybees and other pollinators. Originating from Asia, it was ...

Botanical gardens can cool the city air by around 5 degrees Celsius during heatwaves, with parks and wetlands also significantly reducing air temperatures, according to the most comprehensive review ...