“Widespread insect declines globally are likely to have far-reaching effects on wildlife. Beyond reducing an essential food source, losses of insects risk changing ecosystems, disrupting pollination ...

As part of its ongoing work to scale up biodiversity monitoring and improve insect monitoring, UKCEH has entered into a new licensing agreement with Bristol-based biodiversity technology start-up ...

Habitats across England’s landscape are shown in greater detail than ever before, thanks to the highest-resolution national-level land cover map released anywhere in the world. Developed by the UK ...

Our land, air, and freshwater environments are dynamic systems that interact in complex ways. Understanding them means studying these connections, not only the parts in isolation. Yet the data and ...

Rivers across the world in 2025 had one of their driest years in recent decades, reflecting an ongoing trend that has serious future implications for people and economies. That is according to the ...

New technology in the Solway Firth will help unlock the carbon storage benefits of Scotland’s largest saltmarsh. In a first for Scotland, a pioneering gas flux tower has been installed at Caerlaverock ...

This list presents all the reliable recordings of freshwater and terrestrial cyanobacteria and photosynthetic algae in the British Isles (with the exception of some diatoms). Brackish water and ...

In her blog, Melissa Allan, International Relations Coordinator at UKCEH, reflects on her recent attendance at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP17 in Mongolia and discusses what ...

We are delighted to announce that UKCEH has secured funding from The National Archives to explore how a nationally significant collection of land-use and woodland records can be preserved, catalogued ...

Three of the UK’s worst harvests on record have occurred in the past six years due to extreme weather, with 2026 set to continue the trend. It has never been more important to help people understand ...

Saltmarsh restoration in the UK is dominated by managed realignment, which is costly and slow to deliver. There is growing interest in smaller-scale techniques that could provide quicker, more ...

UKCEH scientists have contributed to a new report, published on 2 September by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which states that global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C, likely ...