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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📺 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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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.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fenlan...
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
YouTube video by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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🌍 Raising saltmarsh's profile at #ClimateWeekNYC

Angus Garbutt, UKCEH coastal ecologist and saltmarsh expert, was busy at New York Climate Week highlighting the value of saltmarshes.

He spoke with government ministers, finance companies, and the UN Oceans team at panels & UN roundtables.

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Five people sitting on a panel in front of a Newsweek banner Notebook and pen in front of a name sign saying Angus Garbutt Salt Marsh Breakthrough The Nat sign on a hedgerow panel Angus Garbutt on a sidewalk with the Empire State Building in the background
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Heading to IAHS 2025 in Roorkee 🇮🇳? 🌏

I’m co-hosting a side event + giving a talk with the ROBIN Network!

Let’s talk reference hydrological networks, drought indicators & climate change detection!

🧵👇
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BSBI is proud to be a partner in @npms.bsky.social alongside our friends @jncc.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social & @plantlifeuk.bsky.social.
Hope you can join us online for the #NPMS10 anniversary celebrations on 18 October!
Programme & booking link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
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🌾 Behind the scenes as the BBC filmed at our experimental rice trials site.

Part of research investigating what we can grow on rewetted peat while protecting livelihoods & cutting emissions under a changing climate.

Exploring land uses for climate resilience, food security & the environment

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A video camera operator looks at two people, one of whom is lowering a chamber into a small paddy field plot Three people in a field, one of whom is operating a video camera while the other two speak to each other Two people are crouched down in a potato field, with two people standing nearby, one of whom is operating a video camera A camera operator is crouched among rice plants while two other people have a conversation nearby
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🌱 The harvest of our rice crop is due – the crops have thrived over the summer.

This AgZero+ research could help reshape UK farming on peatlands.

From basmati to sushi, will UK-grown rice be a staple of our future diet?

#farming #FoodSecurity
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