UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
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Environmental science for a better world, where people and nature prosper 💧🌳🌍 🎙️ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast 📰 Newsletter sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ukceh-news
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Coming soon on Counting the Earth...

🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service.

🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!
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Have you booked your ticket yet? The next Scottish Freshwater Group meet is on Thursday 30 October, just a few weeks away! The focus is Nature-based solutions for Freshwater Restoration. We have a fantastic line up of presentations and focused discussion along with an open space for posters! 👇🏼
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Seen the programme for our #NPMS10 anniversary online event? Join for all or part of the day. Talks by
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@ukceh.bsky.social
@jncc.bsky.social
@nationaltrust.org.uk
@chilternsnl.bsky.social
plus talks from our amazing volunteers! ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE
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💧 Latest UK Hydrological Outlook!

River flows & groundwater levels in eastern Scotland and central and southern England likely to be normal to below normal in October and Oct-Dec.

River flows & groundwater levels elsewhere likely normal to above normal

Details: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook 🧪
Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers and text related to the October 2025 Hydrological Outlook: River flows and groundwater levels in eastern Scotland and central and southern England likely to be normal to below normal over October and Oct-Dec. River flows and groundwater levels elsewhere likely to be normal to above normal over October and Oct-Dec
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We highly recommend this upcoming talk at @linneansociety.bsky.social for compelling, evidence-based perspectives on the decline of woodland birds from Dr Richard Broughton 🌳⬇️
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Why are Britain’s woods falling silent?

Marsh & Willow Tits have declined by up to 96%.

Join @richardkbroughton.bsky.social at 6pm, Oct 23 at the Society to uncover what’s driving these losses - and what they reveal about our vanishing forests.

Book now: buff.ly/IuNlpoH
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Hi, emissions are a key measurement from the rewetted peat project so we'll have information on this in time. Globally rice paddy soils are a major source of methane emissions, though there are ways to reduce them.
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💬 Join a Community Conversation on the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC)

🗓️ 28 Oct 2025 | 10:30–12:00 GMT

This online session will showcase EIDC tools and services and explore how we can improve users' experience of finding, accessing and depositing data.

🔗 eidc.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Four people pictured around a laptop talking and laughing; plus the text 

Environmental Information Data Centre 
Community Conversation
28 October 2025
10:30-12:00 GMT
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📺 Our rice growing trials on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens were featured on ITV Anglia news.

Watch again here:
www.itv.com/watch/news/u... 🧪

#ClimateChange #FoodSecurity
Screengrab of ITV News interview with Nadine Mitschunas from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Nadine is standing among our rice trials on rewetted peatland
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Hi, the Harlequin ladybird is now well established and is here to stay, so any efforts would have minimal effect at this stage.
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Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/jlRJ50X4fe4 Rachel Murphy from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social (1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners) will be talking about #NPMSVolunteer roles, opportunities & accessibility & hosting an array of #VolunteerVoices.
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Ladybird expert Prof Helen Roy: "If they have entered your home in large numbers, please don't harm them. Either leave the insects where they are or, if they are in the way, gather them gently into a box and put them in an outbuilding."

🐞 Report ladybird sightings
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Enter ladybird records | iRecord
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Have you seen lots of ladybirds flying around? Maybe some have come into your house?

At this time of year, ladybirds are moving around looking for a good place to spend the winter. On warmer, sunny days, large numbers may be seen flying in search of a suitable habitat 🐞

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We're looking forward to the online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 Oct.
BSBI is proud to be one of the @npms.bsky.social partner organisations.
We'll be joining partners @jncc.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social & @plantlifeuk.bsky.social on a panel discussion about project outcomes & volunteer support.
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Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/63HH50X49uF Hear panellists from @npms.bsky.social partner organisations @bsbibotany.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social & @plantlifeuk.bsky.social talk about project outcomes & volunteer support.
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📢 We're hiring! Are you ready to make a national impact?

Join us as Senior Project Manager on the UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure – a major initiative transforming how we monitor and respond to extreme hydrological events across the UK.

🔗🧪 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...
Two people stand in a stream with equipment for measuring low flows. Plus the UKCEH logo and the words We're hiring! Senior Project Manager
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It includes species details and a step-by-step guide to carrying out surveys using 5 tree trunks and branches. By recording the presence or absence of lichens, users can estimate how polluted their local area is.

Download via App Store: buff.ly/taCctZ3

Download via Google Play: buff.ly/e4q10Mj
LicheN - Apps on Google Play
Assess nitrogen pollution in your area
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Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

buff.ly/AmWAOQB

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Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk
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Community-led sessions will feature case studies, panels and interactive formats. An independent panel is reviewing exciting submissions from organisations across the UK’s environmental landscape!

#NEMC2025 is organised by @britishecologicalsociety.org, UKCEH and @ukeof.bsky.social

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Two people kneel down monitoring and recording species on grassland
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Great short video featuring Dr Ross Morrison from @ukceh.bsky.social with explaining the importance of carbon flux measurements providing the evidence of conversion to sustainable agriculture.
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Owen Mountford is a @ukceh.bsky.social Fellow (and former staff member for about 40 years), one of Europe's leading botanists, a very warm and funny bloke, and the #Fenland flora has been his life's passion. This should be a fantastic talk. #botany
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The Fenland Flora - Survival against the odds webinar

17 November 1-2pm

Join renowned botanist Owen Mountford, co-author of the soon to be published Fenland Flora, to find out about the fascinating history and present status of wild plants in Fenland.

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The Fenland Flora: Survival against the odds
Expert field botanist Owen Mountford will provide an overview of the Fenland Flora project, surveying the entire Fenland since about 2005
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We invited Deborah Meaden to visit Millmoot Farm in Somerset recently to learn about our work with landowners on sustainable farming, biodiversity monitoring & peatland conservation to support food security and reduce emissions.

👀🧪 Watch the full film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-DB...
UKCEH science in action with Deborah Meaden
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