The system for assessing the health of England’s rivers states just 14% are in good ecological health but an independent report for Defra says this masks improvements in freshwater biodiversity – and ...

Restoring Our Seascapes, a report published by Blue Marine and involving UKCEH scientists, highlights the importance of coastal habitats around the UK. It lays out clear recommendations for UK and ...

For many years, we have known that trees are nature's champions at absorbing carbon dioxide. But now a groundbreaking international study published in Nature has discovered that tree bark surfaces are ...

Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) describe a set of alternative plausible trajectories of societal development, which are based on hypotheses about which societal elements are the most important ...

UK-SCAPE Resources containing videos and highlights of papers from projects now receiving UK-SCAPE funding.

Prof Chris Huntingford, a climate modeller at CEH, is a co-author with colleagues from Exeter University on an important new study on decadal climate variations... Much of climate research is about ...

Because this enables us to assess the current status of the environment and to understand the causes of change. Long-term national monitoring is important for assessing the status of the environment ...

Land use modelling within SPEED responds to changes in both the five downscaled shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) and the bias-corrected CHESS-SCAPE climate datasets for four Representative ...

Science challenge Species moved intentionally or unintentionally by humans from one part of the world to a new region where the species didn’t previously occur are termed non-native species. A ...

Air quality using sensors to measure pollutants and greenhouse gases, to help predict impacts on humans and ecosystems. These projects are now part of our five-year NC-UK programme. A comprehensive ...

The National River Flow Archive (NRFA), based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, is the UK’s official record of river flow data. We collate, curate and provide access to data from over 1,600 ...

Enhance and integrate data on air, soil, biodiversity, and water. Improve our understanding of the consequences of interventions in the UK landscape. Help us to protect and enhance the environment ...