The 1976 drought remains one of the most severe hydrological events in the UK and is entrenched in the national memory. Fifty ...

New Official Statistics on insect pollinators have been published from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) during Insect Week 2026. The data collected every year across Great Britain (GB) ...

The free Farm Health Check is part of the AgZero+ research programme, which receives UK Research and Innovation funding. It is supporting the UK’s transition towards domestic food production that is ...

What is the Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum? The Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum is for researchers and practitioners involved in lake and catchment management, to share knowledge on novel research, ...

As a leading independent research organisation, we are leveraging our expanding global and UK collaborations to address major climate and biodiversity challenges, across land, water and air, as we ...

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 ...

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 ...

This list presents all the reliable recordings of freshwater and terrestrial cyanobacteria and photosynthetic algae in the British Isles (with the exception of some diatoms). Brackish water and ...

Clatto Reservoir is a shallow reservoir (surface area 9ha, mean depth c. 2.7m, maximum depth 7m) in Camperdown Country Park, Dundee, Scotland. Although the site was previously used as a drinking water ...

Haweswater is a reservoir in the Mardale valley in Cumbria. It was formed in the 1940s when a dam was built to merge the two original lakes: Low Water and High Water. The water rose 28.9m, submerging ...

Tune in to the latest episode of our Counting the Earth podcast here. Recorded at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Alice and Sue explore the vital role our gardens play in supporting wildlife and how we ...

The National River Flow Archive (NRFA) collates, quality controls, and archives hydrometric data from 1500 gauging stations across the UK. The NFRA underpins hydrological research and water-management ...