Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a new study. The paper, published in the journal Animal Behaviour, was led by Edinburgh Napier University and also involved the ...

This would benefit soil health, food production and the environment. Surplus nutrients from fertilisers degrade soil health and leach into water, which can result in toxic algal blooms, while excess ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. In a blog, Alex O’Brien tells us about a project ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Combining robust lighting for attracting insects with high resolution cameras, the UKCEH AMI system can provide practical and cost-effective solutions for standardised monitoring. UKCEH AMI systems ...

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MAVIS has now been succeeded by RMAVIS. MAVIS will remain available, however we encourage users to transition to RMAVIS. Please see the RMAVIS page for further details. MAVIS is a program that assigns ...