World Cities Day this year focuses on the youth, our future! So we’re pleased to show how the toolkit can help target actions ...

UKCEH Hosts SpongeScapes: Progressing European Climate Adaptation Research These cookies are not required for the website to function and are used specifically to collect user data via analytics, ads, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“For example, reforestation and rewilding policies designed to combat climate change could increase the risk of crop plant diseases while providing improved habitat for deer, which are hosts for the ...

Haweswater is a reservoir in the Mardale valley in Cumbria. It was formed in the 1940s when a dam was built to merge the two original lakes: Low Water and High Water. The water rose 28.9m, submerging ...

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 ...

The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and the earlier Flood Studies Report (FSR) are a set of methods and associated data to enable recognised standard national methods for rainfall and flood estimation ...

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 ...