UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology

This project develops a two-step treatment that converts livestock manure into a safe, nutrient-rich feedstock for carbon-capturing fertiliser production. It offers a low-emission alternative to traditional manure storage and spreading, which produce around 6.6 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent each year in England. The first step, microaerobic fermentatio...

UK cereal production generates 2.3 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent emissions annually, with nitrogen fertilisers responsible for 64% of this carbon footprint. Rising fertiliser costs and increasing pressure from food companies to reduce emissions create urgent demand for sustainable alternatives. This project develops an innovative biochar-based fertilis...

A consortium of industrial and research partners has come together to tackle the major environmental challenges impacting the River Wye. Nutrient management from poultry farming has been under increasing public scrutiny in the region due to phosphate pollution from poultry litter application damaging waterways. High ammonia emissions are another key issue...

The overarching objective of FutureLakes is to demonstrate innovative solutions needed to transform lake restoration, integrated into lake management. These aim to significantly improve ecological and chemical status of European lakes, restore biodiversity, recover valuable resources, enhance the services that lakes provide and make society more resilient...

SYMBIOSIS is a pioneering interdisciplinary initiative in biodiversity, aligning with the UN's vision for responsible land use and the European Green Deal. It will build a community of practice between transport infrastructure, energy distribution and production, and biodiversity, while addressing the role of strategic planning in climate change and build...

Floods and droughts put increasing pressure on the European society, with estimated annual damages from river flooding of €7.6 billion and drought-induced losses over €9 billion. Fostering sponge measures as nature-based solutions to boost the natural retention function of landscapes is promising but implementation must be rapidly upscaled and innovative ...

**Quanterra Systems ('Quanterra')** is a UK-SME focused on increasing confidence in Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) with the power of analytics for tackling climate change, by providing robust, affordable, and timely measurements of ecosystem carbon flows. They provide environmental monitoring services to measure carbon flows for projects where carbon is acc...

CHROMACITY Ltd., a world leader in development of infra-red lasers, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) will work together to develop and test new instrument technology for real-time in-the-field measurement of common greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants for the quantification of concentrations and ar...

The vision of the HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01-01 call is that Europe’s Regions will be responsible for their sustainable and resilient adaptation to climate change (CC), by developing Roadmaps for adaptation of agriculture to CC. These roadmaps will need to empower regional stakeholders to innovate new, nature-based solutions that meet society’s needs for ...

TOWARDS A SYSTEM BASED, HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICALS (SYBERAC) Biodiversity is key to modern society, sustaining natural resources and providing essential ecosystem services. According to the UN Sustainable Development goals, the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity strategy and other European and national level Directives and s...

The rate of global biodiversity decline is unprecedented and accelerating. Urban sprawl, population growth and industrialization bring previously unrecognised drivers of biodiversity loss, including light and noise pollution. The EU has adopted policies, including the EU Green Deal and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, to enable transformative change...

Roots and Rhythms is a collaborative project involving J Rixon Ltd, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Derby, Ruleo & Partners, Get Lost Studio, Heather Knight Creative and others. It aims to address pressing challenges, including the UK's poor rankings in protecting nature, low nature connectedness and access, and declining biodiversi...