Aquatic ecosystems are increasingly recognised as legitimate water users as they provide essential ecosystem services and support our quality of life. But how much water do they need? Through a mix of ...

On 10 October 2024 stakeholders from across the UK and devolved nations gathered at the Royal Society in London for a workshop on modelling land use policy options. Sarah Sinclair tells us more… ...

The latest episode of our Counting the Earth podcast is here! Listen now. Microplastics are everywhere—tiny plastic particles that permeate our soil, water, food, drinking supplies, and even our ...

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 ...

Japanese Knotweed has been described as the UK’s most destructive invasive plant, because its root systems often cause physical damage to man-made structures. It is a legal requirement to prevent its ...

Following the success of the book, Habitat Creation and Management for Pollinators, we have produced this summary leaflet containing new and detailed information on important plant species visited by ...

Land Cover plus: Crops © UKCEH; UKCEH Land Cover® Plus: Crops © UKCEH. © RSAC. © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572. UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crop ...

The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and its related software offer guidance on rainfall and river flood frequency estimation and development site runoff rates across the UK. Volume 1 contains an ...

The UKCEH Digital Strategy sets out our ambition to realise the power of environmental data and digital technologies to inform and accelerate solutions to the major environmental challenges of our ...

UKCEH’s Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows describes the extent and height of woody linear features, including hedgerows, tree lines and semi-natural thickets of shrubs and trees, on field boundaries in ...

The NERC 'Soil Biodiversity Programme' was an integrated programme of research on the biological diversity of soil biota and the functional roles played by soil organisms in key ecological processes.

Dig into our near real-time soil moisture dataset, measuring using cosmic rays at 47 sites around the UK.