The environment in Wales supports significant economic sectors including agriculture, fisheries, tourism and forestry and is of importance to other policy areas including health and wellbeing, energy ...

Scientists have been systematically taking environmental specimens from representative ecosystems in the United Kingdom for many years. These samples have been classified and stored appropriately so ...

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 ...

*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 ...

The saltmarsh habitats across England, and the remainder of the UK, can remediate nutrients such as ammonium, nitrate and phosphate that may otherwise pollute the marine environment. Multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

July to October 1972 was a dry period, but a rather wetter period followed. Going into 1973, January, February and March were generally dry, and then most regions saw rainfall deficits during June and ...

How can I know if land management will be effective? What is the effect of different land management interventions on water quality? Will what I’m planning on doing be cost-effective? Where is the ...

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 ...

Although the Arctic has been less exposed to industry and urbanisation, it faces urgent environmental threats from climate change, shifts in biological diversity, and the accumulation of contaminants.

Severe and extreme drought began for SSI-12 in winter 1933 in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with 1934 in extreme drought across much of the country. The east of Scotland, northern England and ...