The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-leading independent research institute, carrying out excellent environmental science with impact. UKCEH is pleased to be part of a new national ...

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 ...

The brief was launched during the December 2025 conference ‘From Science to Society: UK Contributions to Global Water ...

The National Environmental Monitoring Conference (NEMC) 2025 is a one-day event on Monday 15 December 2025 bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how environmental ...

We harness data and digital technologies to provide solutions to environmental challenges, and are a major custodian of environmental datasets. The long-term environmental data hosted by UKCEH inform ...

Financing large-scale restoration is becoming more viable, as businesses become more motivated to voluntarily offset CO 2 emissions via the voluntary carbon market. UKCEH is leading a consortium ...

Over the past year, UKCEH has shown its customary vision, innovation and remarkable resilience and agility. We have made the necessary decisions to ensure a sustainable future and engaged our entire ...

The UKCEH Land Cover Maps (LCMs) map UK land cover. They do this by describing the physical material on the surface of the United Kingdom providing an uninterrupted national dataset of land cover ...

Land Cover plus: Crops © UKCEH; UKCEH Land Cover® Plus: Crops © UKCEH. © RSAC. © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572. UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crop ...

Agri-environment schemes (AES) are the most significant mechanism to deliver environmental policy in many countries. Previous studies of AES have found mixed evidence for effects on biodiversity, and ...

Case Study Informing government and business decision-making by mapping how land is used across the UK ...

The Yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, also known as the Asian hornet, is a highly effective predator of insects including honeybees and other pollinators. Originating from Asia, it was ...