The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is a world-class research organisation focusing on land and freshwater ecosystems and their interaction with the atmosphere.

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Dr Gloria Dos Santos Pereira, Dr Andy Stott and Helen Grant at the isotope laboratory at CEH Lancaster
New UK isotope research service is created
Black Hairstreak Picture: Iain H Leach, Butterfly Conservation
Butterflies bounce back in heatwave summer
Orange tip butterfly Picture: Pixabay
Climate change is pushing wildlife ‘out of sync’
Panurgus banksianus (Large Shaggy Bee) Picture: Steven Falk
Widespread losses among pollinating insects in Britain

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Scots pines at Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve ©Lorne Gill SNH
Protection of unique forest is a big step for UK biodiversity
International Women's Day collage of four photos
International Women's Day 2019
Covers of two reports from the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme
30 years of the National Hydrological Monitoring Programme
Landscape-scale species monitoring of agri-environment schemes
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology carries out a variety of long-term environmental monitoring, including air quality
UK-SCAPE: UK Status, Change and Projections of the Environment
Map showing Shivamogga (formerly Shimoga) district of India
Mapping Monkey Fever Risk
Coconut crab on Diego Garcia. Photo c. W Rabitsch
Predictions and priorities to prevent new invasive non-native species arrivals
Black and white photo of a pine tree on a slope
Ecological data of the past: a vast early warning system
Forest mist
Estimating transpiration in climate models
Getting together to fight plant health problems

Data

Environmental Change Network
Environmental Change Network
Biological Records Centre (BRC)
Biological Records Centre (BRC)
Environmental Information Platform
Environmental Information Platform
Environmental datasets
Environmental datasets
NRFA
NRFA
Land cover map
Land cover map
Turning world-class research into practical action
Innovation and commercialisation

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Strengthening Thailand's Agricultural drought Resilience (STAR)
Polar ice
Understanding the Pathways to and Impacts of 1.5C Rise in Global Temperature
Smallholding farmer in India
SUNRISE
Air Pollution and Human Health in Developing Megacities

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Scots pines at Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve ©Lorne Gill SNH
Protection of unique forest is a big step for UK biodiversity
Woodland-grassland boundary image from above
On the track of soil carbon – in an ancient wood
Lynx photographed by wildlife trap camera in Chernobyl exclusion zone
What are the effects of radiation on wildlife? Discussing results from Chernobyl
Sheep beside housing, farm in India
New research could support Indian farmers hit by devastating virus in sheep