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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 112th SFG meeting takes place on Thursday 24 April 2025 as a hybrid event, giving members the option of attending in-person at the University of Stirling (pre-registration required) or joining ...

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 ...

*This is part of an overall MOT4Rivers project led by the University of Stirling. There have been significant reductions in some pollutants (such as nitrogen and phosphorus) in recent decades but the ...

Land and water managers are facing a challenging situation trying to manage our catchments and water resources to deliver a complex mix of competing demands. These include targets for improving water ...