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 ...

The Plynlimon Research Catchments host a demonstrator site to test the hypothesis that application of basalt rock dust onto upland grassland will enhance the long-term capture of carbon in the soil ...

The drought of the 1920s was mostly focussed in England and south Wales with severe flow deficits beginning in summer 1921 across southern England for SSI-12. For SSI-3, however, 1920 ended with ...

*This is part of an overall MOT4Rivers project led by the University of Stirling. There have been significant reductions in some pollutants (such as nitrogen and phosphorus) in recent decades but the ...

The environment in Wales supports significant economic sectors including agriculture, fisheries, tourism and forestry and is of importance to other policy areas including health and wellbeing, energy ...

In June 2014 TREE participants from NERC-CEH and University of Salford visited the Universadad de Extremadura (Caceres, Spain) to discuss collaboration on field sampling in Spain in order to help ...

The saltmarsh habitats across England, and the remainder of the UK, can remediate nutrients such as ammonium, nitrate and phosphate that may otherwise pollute the marine environment. Multiple ...

Severe and extreme drought began for SSI-12 in winter 1933 in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with 1934 in extreme drought across much of the country. The east of Scotland, northern England and ...

Loch Flemington is a shallow (surface area 15ha, mean depth c. 0.75m, maximum depth 2.35m) nutrient-enriched lake in northern Scotland. Algal blooms at the site are common and fish deaths have been ...

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 ...

UKCEH is collaborating with UNESCO on a new initiative, Sankore, to strengthen the national Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) ecosystems in West Africa. Sankore, a new £1.9 million initiative, ...

Our latest episode of Counting the Earth is now out! In this episode, Alice and Sue visit the River Kennet and Reading Sewage Treatment Works to explore antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a growing ...