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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 ...
The Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published the first Species Indicator Report for England in May. UKCEH Macroecologist Dr Nick Isaac explains the process of co-designing ...
Professor Laurence Jones, Wetlands Grasslands and Croplands science group leader at UKCEH, shows how planning tools can help design better outcomes for young people in cities... Young people care ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new report on trends of grassland butterflies across Europe shows numbers declined by over a third in just a decade. The European Grassland Butterfly Indicator, led by the Butterfly Conservation ...
Trials carried out by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), Black Bull Biochar (BBB) and Scotland's Rural College have shown that adding relatively small amounts of biochar to soil can ...
Around one in six species are at risk of becoming extinct in the UK, according to the most comprehensive study of our national wildlife. The latest State of Nature report, which assessed the long-term ...
The third episode of our Counting the Earth podcast is now available. Listen to 'Soil Superheroes: 50 trillion' and delve into the vital statistics of earthworms, as Alice and Sue uncover the unsung ...