Some 85% of saltmarsh in the UK has been lost since the mid-19th century due to agriculture, development, pollution and climate change. A new report by WWF and Aviva, based on the UKCEH research, ...

UKCEH Director of Science, Dr Doug Wilson OBE, comments: "The new science areas enhance our ability to conduct world-class ...

UKCEH has been carrying out research at RSPB Hope Farm for several years, so it was a real pleasure to take part in its 2025 ...

The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasising the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists who have analysed that summer’s events ...

Protected natural areas of the UK are struggling to halt declines in insects and spiders that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to a new study led by researchers from the UK Centre for ...

Scientific data confirm British farmers’ fears that this is the worst harvest for at least 25 years, following a year of extreme weather. Analyses by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) have ...

‘Eco-friendly’ LED streetlights are even more harmful for insect populations than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a new study has shown. The negative impacts of light pollution on ...

Laser scanning shows a total of 390,000 km of hedgerows (1-6 metres tall) exist on field boundaries in England – enough to go round the world almost 10 times. These important habitats support ...

A new report on trends of grassland butterflies across Europe shows numbers declined by over a third in just a decade. The European Grassland Butterfly Indicator, led by the Butterfly Conservation ...

Nick Everard, a senior hydrometric scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, explains that an innovative project is investigating how very high-resolution videos shot from space could ...

Climate change will make outbreaks of West Nile virus more likely in the UK within the next 20-30 years, scientists say. West Nile virus is spread by mosquitoes and has no vaccine. Most people have no ...

Around one in six species are at risk of becoming extinct in the UK, according to the most comprehensive study of our national wildlife. The latest State of Nature report, which assessed the long-term ...