The largest global assessment of its kind has shown that plant diversity increases populations of predators to suppress pests before they cause significant crop damage. The meta-a ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) was delighted to welcome HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh to our stand at the ...

Hydrologists at UKCEH have contributed to the annual State of the UK Climate report for the first time. The newly published edition for 2025 looks back at a record-breaking drought which was bookended ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) delivers far‑reaching economic, environmental, and societal benefits across the UK, according to a new independent assessment by London Economics.

As climate change intensifies, droughts are becoming more frequent, severe, and widespread. With over two billion people projected to be exposed to drought by 2100, the need for robust, harmonised ...

Dr Adam Griffin, a hydrological statistician and the Flood Estimation team leader at UKCEH, reflects on a milestone year for a milestone project… UKCEH and its predecessors have over the last 50 years ...

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 ...

Four NC-UK summer internship projects began in June 2026 for a six-week period. The internships will support priority areas of work across the NC-UK programme, while also providing valuable ...

The National Capability for UK Challenges (NC-UK) programme is transforming how the UK understands and manages its land, air, and freshwater environments—delivering the data, tools, and partnerships ...

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 ...

The Monks Wood 'Wilderness' sites are a series of former fields of arable farmland and grassland, which are next to the ancient woodland of Monks Wood National Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire, ...

The overall objective of the soil work in the UKCEH Countryside Survey is to understand the state and change of UK topsoil (0-15cm). The methods used provide evidence of the state and change of ...