Designated as an Area of Special Scientific Interest, Lough Neagh’s habitats support rare fish, birds and plants. It is also the source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people, though NI ...

Saltmarshes are not currently included in the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector of the UK’s GHG Inventory, which is the UK’s official record of progress towards national and ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. Scientists from UKCEH and students from Imperial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nine varieties of rice are being trialled in the Cambridgeshire Fens, including risotto, basmati and sushi. Scientists and farmers are exploring the best ways to tackle climate change, food security ...

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 ...

UKCEH has a long history of creating innovative information products. We take a flexible approach to licensing to meet the needs of commercial, non-commercial and academic customers. You can use our ...

Through the Climate Solutions Catalyst UKCEH is partnering with Undaunted, a leading UK hub for climate innovation and green entrepreneurship. Dig beneath the surface—peeling back the “onion layers” ...

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 ...