The NC-UK internship 2025 is now CLOSED. We are excited to be recruiting two interns to join our NC-UK Internship programme! Through this programme, you'll delve deep into the scientific research ...

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.

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the next five years, the NC-UK programme will host a diverse range of events focused on integrated environmental monitoring. These events will bring together scientists, researchers, policymakers ...

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 ...