UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson warned us right from the off that “multilateralism is messy”, and she was right. After ...

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The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new trustees.

The Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and the earlier Flood Studies Report (FSR) are a set of methods and associated data to enable recognised standard national methods for rainfall and flood estimation ...

ROBIN Phase II focuses on growing and strengthening the global reference hydrological network. Building on the foundations of Phase I, this next phase aims to: Expand country participation, especially ...

UKCEH scientists have applied this method – known as UNSEEN (Unprecedented simulated extremes using ensembles) – to explore ...

The recently published 2024 annual report marks the tenth year of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS), which since ...

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 ...

Climate change will make outbreaks of West Nile virus more likely in the UK within the next 20-30 years, scientists say. West Nile virus is spread by mosquitoes and has no vaccine. Most people have no ...

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 support ...

It is widely accepted that we are experiencing climate change. Though it is challenging to predict its future impacts, we expect to see changes to weather patterns and the frequency of extreme events, ...

‘Eco-friendly’ LED streetlights are even more harmful for insect populations than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a new study led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has shown.