Whatever global action is taken on climate change, there will still be more wildfires across the world in future due to the warming that has already happened. However, large-scale reductions in ...

Alice met with Andy Elliott, Wildfire Tactical Adviser from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Nine varieties of rice are being trialled in the Cambridgeshire Fens, including risotto, basmati and sushi. Scientists and farmers are exploring the best ways to tackle climate change, food security ...

Following the driest spring in England for 132 years, the Met Office forecasts for the coming months are uncertain. Hydrological ‘hindcasts’ exploring how weather conditions could have developed in ...

In Summer 2025, the flood estimation team have released an update to the statistical flood frequency estimation methods (the FEH methods), including changes to QMED estimation, donor transfer, the ...

We are pleased to announce that the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN) dataset is now available. This contains publicly available daily ...

Hardly a month goes by without a heatwave occurring somewhere on our planet: January? Australia. February? Brazil. March? Central Asia. And so on. These prolonged periods of intense heat stress are ...

UKCEH climate modeller Dr Chris Huntingford is part of a team awarded £5 million by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to investigate early warning signs of climate 'tipping points'.

A combination of climate change and our increasing use of water is likely to result in significantly drier rivers during English summers by the end of the century, causing potential water scarcity ...

Professor Laurence Jones, Wetlands Grasslands and Croplands science group leader at UKCEH, shows how planning tools can help design better outcomes for young people in cities... Young people care ...

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has released updated Land Cover Maps, which depict broad habitats across our landscape based on high-resolution satellite imagery. The maps, representing UK land ...

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 who have analysed that summer’s events ...