The infographic below illustrates how CEH delivered a large-scale experimental field trial to assess the impacts of neonicotinoid seed treatments on honeybees and wildbees across Europe.

The Plynlimon Research Catchments host a demonstrator site to test the hypothesis that application of basalt rock dust onto upland grassland will enhance the long-term capture of carbon in the soil ...

Microbes are central to all life on Earth due to their huge diversity in form and function. In soils, one teaspoon of topsoil contains around 1 billion individual microscopic cells and around 10,000 ...

The drought of the 1920s was mostly focussed in England and south Wales with severe flow deficits beginning in summer 1921 across southern England for SSI-12. For SSI-3, however, 1920 ended with ...

In September 2024, at the end of his visit to UKCEH, we interviewed Joseph Izang Ibrahim, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Joseph is developing a butterfly monitoring protocol suited to ...

Loch Flemington is a shallow (surface area 15ha, mean depth c. 0.75m, maximum depth 2.35m) nutrient-enriched lake in northern Scotland. Algal blooms at the site are common and fish deaths have been ...

In June 2014 TREE participants from NERC-CEH and University of Salford visited the Universadad de Extremadura (Caceres, Spain) to discuss collaboration on field sampling in Spain in order to help ...

What is the effect of different land management interventions on water quality? Will what I’m doing provide secondary or wider benefits in the catchment for carbon, biodiversity or other ecosystem ...

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 ...

In its dairy herd, the scope for UK grown feeds to improve milk yield and quality under conventional and organic winter diets is being evaluated The SIP at Nafferton is investigating using UK grown ...

This project will demonstrate how colonialism has shaped and continues to shape the ecology of the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). British colonialist policies have had, and continue to have, hugely ...

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