At UKCEH, we are proud of the diverse range of opportunities available to help our colleagues learn, grow and succeed. We are continually expanding and improving what we offer, taking on board ...

The next UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) will be held in Belém, in the state of Pará in Brazil's Amazon region, from 10 to 21 November 2025. UKCEH will be represented at COP30 in ...

The £2m project, UNSaFE (Understanding the Scale, Sources, Fate and Effects of PFAS pollution), is led by Imperial College London in partnership with Brunel University, King's College London and UKCEH ...

Whatever global action is taken on climate change, there will still be more wildfires across the world in future due to the warming that has already happened. However, large-scale reductions in ...

A sampling approach known as Lagrangian sampling, where we sample with the flow of the river to capture the movement of water downstream, is needed to investigate this effect. Given the complexity of ...

Alice met with Andy Elliott, Wildfire Tactical Adviser from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Scientific data confirm British farmers’ fears that this is the worst harvest for at least 25 years, following a year of extreme weather. Analyses by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) have ...

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 combination of climate change and our increasing use of water is likely to result in significantly drier rivers during English summers by the end of the century, causing potential water scarcity ...

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 ...

Need help identifying a moth? Want to know which moth species might be on the wing tonight in your area? Now you can find out easily using ‘What’s Flying Tonight’, a new smartphone app. Lead scientist ...

‘Eco-friendly’ LED streetlights are even more harmful for insect populations than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a new study has shown. The negative impacts of light pollution on ...