25th November 2024
It’s the season of giving! Why not give back to nature this holiday season? As an environmental charity, we depend on donations from people like you to help us bring...
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15th November 2024
The Tiny Forest Tree Survey took place during 12 – 20 October 2024. It is a simple survey, measuring and identifying trees at the 250+ Tiny Forests across the UK. We...
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29th August 2024
Across the UK, our waterways are in crisis. Pollution from farming, sewage, industrial and domestic waste, and more, is turning our rivers toxic - harming people and wildlife. The question...
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19th August 2024
Our water test kit enables everyone to test the water quality of their local rivers, lakes and streams. You can help measure your local water quality as part of the...
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12th August 2024
The Great UK WaterBlitz is the UK's biggest citizen science freshwater testing campaign. The first WaterBlitz took place over the weekend of 7-10 June 2024. More than 2,600 people went...
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7th August 2024
Water pollution is a huge challenge for freshwater in the UK, impacting our rivers, streams and lakes and the wildlife that call them home. In June, over 2,600 people measured...
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14th June 2024
Our latest Science Camp, which took place at Hill End Outdoor Education Centre near Oxford during 26-30 May, welcomed Omani environmental scientists for the first time. It was an exciting...
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9th May 2024
A new report by the Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) has found that: most of England’s water bodies are in an unsatisfactory state. While levels of some individual pollutants have...
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17th April 2024
This Citizen Science Month, we are thrilled to announce that our FreshWater Watch community groups have collected over 40,000 data sets across the globe. For more than a decade, our...
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15th April 2024
Our Director of Science and Policy, Dr Sasha Woods, shares some key insights from the ECSA conference and reflects on how citizen science projects can hold the power to influence...
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14th March 2024
Our Science Coordinator, Georgie Sturgeon, celebrates the remarkable contributions made by our Tiny Forest citizen scientists, and shares some of the key insights from our latest Tiny Forest Monitoring Report....
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7th March 2024
Our newly-appointed Director of Science & Policy, Dr Sasha Woods, reflects on her journey through the wonderful world of science, achieving this new milestone in her career, and the research...
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13th February 2024
As a proud partner of the Evenlode Catchment Partnership (ECP), we join the celebrations of its 10th anniversary. Earlier this year, we were thrilled to see a local primary school...
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17th June 2022
Citizen science is work undertaken by educators and scientists together with citizen communities to advance science, foster a broad scientific mentality, and/or encourage democratic engagement; allowing people in society to...
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