📣New Study: Collapse in UK insect populations may be overstated, but local communities are being reshaped by CC & development 🐝🪲🦋🦗🪰🐞@btobirds.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/insects...

The UK GGR Event starts 1 week from today! Anyone interested in greenhouse gas removal is welcome to join us on 30 Sept (Impact Day) & 1 Oct (Innovation Day). Not sure which day to choose? Come to both! The whole event is completely free to attend. Read more & sign up: co2re.org/events/the-u...

The long-term monitoring addressed in this review is wide-ranging and includes that undertaken by the UK Environmental Change Network. Please take some time to share your views. The closing date is 9am (UK time) on 29th September.

"Be brave about coming to this national policy or global conversations because I am certain that you’re going to diversify the discussion, because you’re going to bring new perspectives..." Our own María Estelí Jarquín with insights from her career in science diplomancy! 🎧 Listen:

The global water cycle has become more erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought ⛈️. UKCEH contributed to the latest @wmo-global.bsky.social #StateOfWater report. It shows that while 2024 was dry and hot overall, some areas suffered severe drought and others multiple floods. 🧵🧪 1/

We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... 🧵🧪1/

our next #BESAG2025 keynote speaker is Dr. Joe Taylor from @ukceh.bsky.social. Joe gave a wonderful and very interesting presentation on #biodiversity and #importance of #microbial #eukaryotes in #lakes 🧪🌍💧💦🔬🦠

We've brought together a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain! Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🌱🌿🧪

Crossing a climate tipping point doesn't mean tipping is inevitable - a threshold can be temporarily passed if overshoot is short-lived. Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks. New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪

Last week we hosted the first UK Atmospheric Chemistry Conference, with the @ukceh.bsky.social and @nceoscience.bsky.social.

🌼🍀 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme is now on Bluesky, and sharing details of their 10th anniversary celebration events next month 🎉 Give them a follow at @npms.bsky.social and see how to take part ⬇️ @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🧪

Research confirms the positive impact of nature-friendly farming for butterflies 🦋 With Natural England and BTO we studied butterfly data showing butterfly abundance is 53% greater in agri-environment areas compared to the wider countryside. 🔗 naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/12/c... 🧪

Explore fresh insights on #Biodiversity Nexus research with UKCEH scientists at an upcoming BIONEXT project webinar. Learn how nexus thinking supports nature-positive futures. 📅 30 Oct | 15:00 CET 🔗 www.bionext-project.eu/news/webinar... 🧪 #NaturePositive #sustainability

What are stakeholders' visions for positive lake futures in the English Lake District? A new blog post from #UKCEH_AquaEco: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪🌊🐟🚣‍♀️ #freshwater #lake @ukceh.bsky.social

How do we secure healthy, resilient lakes for the future? 🌊 The #PLURALAKES project is combining science and community perspectives, using the @ipbes.net Nature Futures Framework to shape new visions for our lakes Dr Heather Moorhouse explains more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

⌛HURRY! Deadline tomorrow to register your session proposal for this year's National Environment Monitoring Conference! More details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... @britishecologicalsociety.org @ukeof.bsky.social

During a break from MAMBO product presentations, Tom August from @ukceh.bsky.social made a demonstration of the camera for monitoring nocturnal flying insect activity to MAMBO partners. #MAMBOagm #MAMBOmeets

Responses will shape a follow-up workshop on 12 November focused on detecting and understanding pollutant impacts on UK freshwaters. Join freshwater biodiversity experts to evaluate the effectiveness and representativeness of UK monitoring approaches. Register: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... 2/2

Over 2 days, at the Atmospheric Chemistry conference, we had talks and posters from over 20 different UK universities and research centres including @nceoscience.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @bas.ac.uk @ukceh.bsky.social, @metoffice.gov.uk RAL-Space and NPL

Are you involved in freshwater biodiversity or water quality monitoring and research in the UK? We're inviting individuals and organisations to complete a survey to help us understand community needs and priorities around monitoring & research. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... 🧵🧪 1/

📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change. A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation. 🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

🌊 Latest UK Hydrological Outlook: Normal to below normal river flows likely in southern & eastern areas over the next 3 months, with low flows for the time of year persisting in some catchments. River flows in northwestern areas likely shifting towards normal to above normal by November. 🧵🧪 1/

📣 Closing soon! Senior Research Associate (2 yrs) at @bristoluni.bsky.social with the UK Floods & Droughts Research Infrastructure. Lead the Early Adopters Programme & help shape FDRI monitoring with UKCEH, @bgs.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Apply by 17 Sep 🧪: tinyurl.com/4hfhe93m

📣 Last chance to register! It's the final call to get tickets for the Hydro-JULES conference 'Land and water in a changing climate' at the Royal Society on 24 Sep. Registration closes tomorrow, 9 Sep ➡️ buff.ly/BS9iWBL

Don't miss out! Register for a session at the National Environment Monitoring Conference - deadline next Friday 12 Sep. From Insight to Impact: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community 📅 15 December 📍 EICC, Edinburgh Learn more: buff.ly/SHTboRN #NEMC2025

Excellent mosquito-borne disease meeting at the House of Commons today. Many thanks to Valenva for organising and we forward to further discussions with @ukceh.bsky.social. It was also great to catch up friends and colleagues.

🌿Check out the new floating weeds app, to help track invasives like water hyacinth. 🌿You can help to provide a fuller picture of how the weather and climate change affect the growth and spread of these plants. www.ceh.ac.uk/data/floatin... #UKCEH_AquaEco @ukceh.bsky.social 🧪🚣‍♀️ #CitizenScience

It's Yellow-legged Asian Hornet Week. Professor Helen Roy from @ukceh.bsky.social explains the differences between Yellow-legged Hornets & European Hornets, their impact and the importance of reporting potential sightings of this invasive non-native species. youtube.com/shorts/GeYYj...

🌿 The UK Saltmarsh Forum, organised by @ukceh.bsky.social is underway @swanseauni.bsky.social. Proudly sponsored by @The Crown Estate, @natreswales.bsky.social , & @wwf.org.uk, find out more, including the launch of Saltmarsh Network Cymru. www.ceh.ac.uk/press/welsh-... Photo: Skywardz Images

The UK has seen widespread drought this summer. But to what extent are UK droughts being impacted by climate change? In a timely piece up on @carbonbrief.org today, @ukceh.bsky.social hydrologists look at whether global warming is making UK droughts worse www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-i...

We're using bioacoustic sensors to monitor birds and bats at our long-term monitoring and research site in the Cairngorms, operated by @ukceh.bsky.social: ecn.ac.uk/news/bioacou... 🦅🦇🎤 #monitoring #research #environment #species #LTER

⌛ One week to register! Join us at the Royal Society, London for 'Land and Water in a Changing Climate'. This one-day event on 24 September will bring together modellers, industry experts & practitioners to share new developments and visions for the future.

🎧 If you're a fan of our Counting the Earth podcast, share your love with a vote in the Listeners' Choice category in the British Podcast Awards! We'd be thrilled! Vote here by 8 Sep: buff.ly/dX57DRP #podcast #CountingTheEarth 🌍 🧪

Back from holiday? Catch up on recent UKCEH news with our August newsletter! 🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map 🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss 🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores 🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring and more! 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN

Register now for a session at the National Environment Monitoring Conference - deadline 12 September. From Insight to Impact: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community, organised by UKCEH, @britishecologicalsociety.org @ukeof.bsky.social, is on 15 Dec in Edinburgh 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/kASkYYB

With exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK this year, hydrologists at UKCEH address the question of whether #globalwarming is increasing severity of #droughts in a guest post for @carbonbrief.org

💧🐟 Lakes support wildlife, drinking water & livelihoods, but they're changing with a warming climate and human activity. With our decades of freshwater research, we welcome today’s first ever UN World Lake Day! To celebrate, explore facts & visual comparisons of UK lakes ⤵️ 🧪 buff.ly/1E4UU8w

Don't miss our three amazing keynote speakers at the Land and Water in a Changing Climate event at the Royal Society in London on 24 September! Register now to join modellers, industry and practitioners across hydrology to share insights and knowledge. 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/8OdfwQc

As official Observers, the opportunity to speak is limited, so making the science heard is done through corridor conversations and side events. Attending the multilateral negotiations was “an eye opener into a world of assumed knowledge, formalities and acronyms”. See more: tinyurl.com/mrxmfm87

New paper on how the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau is evolving under climate change and especially rainfall changes. Led by our Chinese visiting scientist, Zhiping Zhao www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ClimateChange

🌍 A UKCEH team were observers at the latest UN talks on a global treaty to end plastic pollution. Negotiations ended without consensus after 2 intense weeks, but there are glimmers of hope 🔗 tinyurl.com/mrxmfm87 🧵🧪 1/ @samharrison.science @richardkcross.bsky.social @feuchtmayr.bsky.social #INC5

Hi #freshwater scientists! The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are advertising for a senior freshwater ecologist...could this be you? ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #job #science #ecology 💦🦦🦠🐟🚣‍♂️🚣‍♀️🧪

🦋 New UKCEH research with @naturalengland.bsky.social and @btobirds.bsky.social shows the positive impacts of agri-environment schemes (AES) on butterflies. Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🧵🧪 1/

While most woodlands had stable soil carbon, plots with ash dieback decreased in carbon - with potentially big implications for woodland carbon sequestration! The paper is available #openaccess at doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... and further information on the survey here: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...

Our paper on the impacts of ash dieback on soil carbon is finally out! 🎉 #soilscience #ashdieback #woodlands In this, we looked at the changes in soil organic carbon content of ~100 woodlands across GB over the past fifty years. 1/

NEW: Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found. 🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social 🌳🧪 1/

We are back on the Isle of May for the final bit of breeding season monitoring. Fulmar checks are now complete. We'll be sharing all the Isle breeding season results very soon. @smp-seabirds.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

🎧😎 Ready for a new podcast this summer? Try Counting the Earth — our series exploring nature through numbers – from the zero in net zero, all the way to 50 trillion – the estimated number of earthworms in the UK 🪱😲 Discover it here: audioboom.com/channels/512... 🧪 1/

What moths live on farmland? Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569... @ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social

🌟 We're excited to have our water science director Dr Glenn Watts as a keynote speaker at next month's Hydro-JULES conference, Land and water in a changing climate, at the Royal Society. 🖱️ Book your place! enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l... 🧪