Why do we need to monitor the natural environment?

Because this enables us to assess the current status of the environment and to understand the causes of change. Long-term national monitoring is important for assessing the status of the environment and for helping to understand the causes of change.

Providing answers to high-level questions

UKCEH collects and integrates national scale datasets, enabling researchers to answer high-level questions around the status and trends of environmental resources.

Air and water case studies

UK-SCAPE included two case studies, one focussing on air, the other on water. The outputs from these are listed in the Resources section.