A group of primary school children in blue school jumpers sitting at desks in a classroom and facing a teacher.

Past event / Watch the first in the CHILI seminar series, which brought together experts to explore children’s learning environments and health.

23 January 2026 / About Cities, Climate policy and Pollution

Close up of hands holding a mobile phone, using it to take a photograph or video of two brown and orange butterflies on a round purple flower.

Increasing inclusivity in biological recording in the UK: progress to date and future priorities

Journal article / Eight UK organizations who run volunteer biological recording schemes gathered to evaluate their engagement and activities with underrepresented groups.

15 January 2026 / About Participation

Woman with baby in carrier on her chest rests her hand gently on baby's head. She is looking at mobile phone, using an app for analysing growth conditions in garden.

Appropriate technologies: for regenerative practices and ecological citizenship, yielding planet-centred design

Other publication / Introducing a new methodology for designers, technologists and citizens to engage with technologies in an ecologically interdependent world.

12 January 2026 / About Participation

Wide angle shot of a wood-panelled room full of groups of people sitting around tables. They are looking at Smriti Safaya, who stands with her back to the camera as she addresses them.

City Nature Challenged: reflections on the experience of UK City Nature Challenge Organizers

Journal article / Data from surveys, interviews and written responses are used to explore the strategies used and challenges faced by organizers of citizen science events.

9 January 2026 / About Participation

Street scene in North Yorkshire, with stone buildings, shops, benches and rainbow flags.

Unlocking retrofit uptake through community champions

Project / Exploring how local champions, trusted advice and accessible finance can support home retrofit uptake in York and North Yorkshire.

2026 / About Household energy and Participation

Two teachers talking in a classroom, one holding a tablet while the other smiles and gestures, with empty chairs stacked on tables and pupil work displayed on the walls in the background.

CHEPA (Classroom HEPA) impact calculator

Tool / CHEPA is an easy-to-use calculator that helps schools assess how a HEPA filter impacts classroom air quality and energy use.

About Cities, Participation, Pollution and Wellbeing

Two men, wrapped in warm outdoor clothing and hats standing in a moorland landscape. One holds an LED lamp with two hands, level with his head, shining it down onto the ground. Another, standing nearby holds a laptop connected to a number of pieces of scientific equipment on the ground.

Application of a hand-held supplementary light for extending field-based net ecosystem exchange carbon flux measurements in low light conditions

Journal article / Artificial light improves confidence in the measurement of ecosystem exchange rates under limited light conditions.

17 November 2025 / About Climate services and Land use

Exploring testate amoebae as taxonomic and functional bioindicators to inform peatland habitat status and blanket bog restoration

Journal article / These tiny microbial species could offer insights into the success of peatland management strategies.

14 November 2025 / About Ecosystems

A line of three people wrapped up in winter clothing walk on a narrow path across a wide heather moor.

Exploring optimal sampling strategy of testate amoebae as hydrological bioindicators in UK upland peatlands

Journal article / Sampling dominant Sphagnum moss from relatively flat positions in autumn or early winter offers a simple but effective strategy to gather testate amoebae.

10 November 2025 / About Ecosystems

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