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.

A warm summer's day in June - when better to initiate a new group of farming and wildlife industry professionals to the ...

As a strategic delivery partner for the Natural Environment Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, UKCEH delivers impartial environmental science to benefit the UK research community, ...

Study shows global warming will make UK suitable for new produce eg oranges and chickpeas Some existing key crops are likely to become harder to grow in our agricultural heartlands While climate ...

To repeat the 'Bunce' 1971/2001 GB broadleaved woodlands survey and 1971 Scottish pinewoods survey, between 2020 and 2022 In 1971, a survey of trees, ground vegetation and soils was undertaken by ...

Yellow-legged (Asian) hornets do not pose a greater health risk than other hornets or wasps. Additionally, they are distinct from Vespa mandarinia, the Asian or northern giant hornet. The main concern ...

The FEH Web Service is delivered by UKCEH and delivers catchment descriptors and rainfall data to support the methods outlined in the Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH), and implemented in the FEH ...

The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and its related software offer guidance on rainfall and river flood frequency estimation and development site runoff rates across the UK. These are required for: ...

UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crop maps were the first detailed, interactive, digital maps of cropping in Great Britain. Two million land parcels are categorised within the Land Cover Map spatial framework, ...

UKCEH’s Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows describes the extent and height of woody linear features, including hedgerows, tree lines and semi-natural thickets of shrubs and trees, on field boundaries in ...

About the data Mapping the country’s hedgerows is difficult due to the scale involved, and previous analyses have relied on estimates scaled up from field surveys of smaller areas. UKCEH’s new map, ...

Ongoing development of the UK Saltmarsh Carbon Code will pave the way for increased funding for saltmarsh restoration which will contribute towards the UK's net zero goals. Saltmarshes collect and ...