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

Outline The National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain (GBNVPD) acts as the centralised repository for vegetation plot data from Great Britain, the Isle of Man, the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and ...

Trials have shown that adding relatively small amounts of biochar to soil can significantly increase the amount of nutrients essential for crop growth, boosting crop yield. The charcoal-like substance ...

New research will investigate how pollution impacts our country’s rivers, develop better monitoring methods and put forward solutions for better chemical management to improve water quality. The ...

Key findings 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 ...

23.1.23 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 ...

UK scientists have produced a comprehensive review of the latest research into drought including its impacts on people and the environment The Environment Agency worked with more than 40 experts from ...

The latest results from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) suggest the heatwave and drought of summer 2022 has had a negative impact on some UK butterfly species. UKBMS data to be collected in ...

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 ...

Scientists at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) are trialling an innovative approach to mitigating climate change and boosting crop yield in mid-Wales. Adding crushed rock dust to farmland ...

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 ...