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Our office in Accra, Ghana is our hub for developing and delivering collaborative scientific projects and maintaining strategic relationships with local, national and regional stakeholders across West ...
Our approach is to establish lasting equitable partnerships across the public and private sectors to jointly produce impactful research and solutions that address major environmental challenges such ...
Discover more about our current and past research in West Africa with regional and international collaborators. Our science benefits from excellent in-country partnerships and together we are ...
Develop practical machine learning skills to address complex environmental data challenges. Location: Interactive online course using MS Teams Lancaster and Edinburgh, as indicated by learner demand ...
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).
Trials have shown that adding relatively small amounts of biochar to soil can significantly increase the amount of nutrients essential for crop growth, boosting crop yield. The charcoal-like substance ...
An innovative project led by UKCEH is investigating how very high-resolution videos shot from space could transform flood management globally.
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 at the UK Centre for Ecology & ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1976 (and to a lesser extent 2018), river flows in the autumn increased sharply in response to some very wet weather, as signified by the steepness of the red (1976) and orange (2018) lines in the ...