Rice Takes Root In British Soil For The First Time Nine varieties of rice are being trialled in the Cambridgeshire Fens, including risotto, basmati and sushi. Scientists and farmers are exploring the ...

Farmland covers a large part of the UK’s landscape and so plays a crucial role in supporting biodiversity. However, ...

State of Global Water Resources 2024 is an authoritative annual assessment of river flows, reservoirs, lakes, groundwater, soil moisture, snow and ice. It drew on data and insights provided by ...

The GBNVPD now acts as the centralised repository for vegetation plot data from Great Britain, the Isle of Man, the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and Bailiwick of Jersey and is registered in the global index ...

Following the driest spring in England for 132 years, the Met Office forecasts for the coming months are uncertain. Hydrological ‘hindcasts’ exploring how weather conditions could have developed in ...

Review of Water Framework Directive points to increased diversity of invertebrates, fish, plants, algae Cunliffe report urges Government to consider scientists’ proposals including a biodiversity ...

In Summer 2025, the flood estimation team have released an update to the statistical flood frequency estimation methods (the FEH methods), including changes to QMED estimation, donor transfer, the ...

This week during London Climate Action Week we were delighted to meet Minister for Climate, Kerry McCarthy MP at the flagship sustainability event, Reset Connect. UKCEH Associate Science Director ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is proud to announce its new science framework, marking a major milestone in its evolution. Following an extensive restructure and strategic recruitment ...

UKCEH scientists will take part in the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe, the most important European meeting for research in the field of ...

We are pleased to announce that the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset is now available. This contains publicly available daily ...

UKCEH scientists are part of the new Lake District Charr Recovery & Management project (LD-CHARM) which is gathering evidence to protect and restore Arctic charr populations in Windermere and other ...