ClimateXChange has just published a soil route map for Scotland. The aim of this route map is to consolidate the challenges of managing soil systems to develop an overarching strategy for delivering improved soil security across Scottish landscapes...
A paper has been published on the hydro-geomorphic effects of wooden leaky barriers (LBs) in a steep headwater stream. The open access paper is published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms and authored by a team of scientists in the James...
A podcast has been released by Farming and Water Scotland that discusses the 'Magic Margin' approach. In this podcast, they talk with David Boldrin from the James Hutton Institute about how magic margins can be used to help reduce diffuse pollution...
A webinar recording is now available that summarises the new Working With Natural Processes Evidence Directory update. Working with natural processes (WWNP) aims to protect, restore and emulate the natural functions of catchments, floodplains,...
Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference 2025 was held in Edinburgh on the 28th and 29th January. The theme of the conference was on taking action to implement the Flood Resilience Stratergy. Organised by Verture, the event built on Scotland’s first...
The Environment Agency have published an update to the Working with Natural Processes evidence directory. This was developed in collaboration with JBA Consulting. The Working with Natural Processes Evidence Directory was first published in 2017 and...
SpongeScapes is a Horizon Europe project uniting 14 case studies across Europe to advance the understanding and implementation of sponge measures—nature-based solutions that restore landscapes' natural capacity to absorb, temporarily store, and...
The Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) is now establishing a long term monitoring programme in the UK. FDRI is an innovative long-term programme which, for the first time in the UK, will monitor the whole hydrological system, to...
A National Flood Resilience Strategy for Scotland has been published by the Scottish Government. The strategy sets out a vision for a flood resilient Scotland through to 2045 and beyond. It is structured around the themes of People, Places and...
A report has just been published by scientists at the James Hutton Institute, SRUC and University of Aberdeen that assesses the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment. The work was commissioned by Scotland's...
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute have just published a paper on a new approach for characterising temporary storage area (TSA) functioning. The open access paper published in the Journal of Hydrology looks at...
