It takes a brave pilot and crew to seek out bad weather but this is exactly what researchers on the Living With Environmental Change-accredited Storm Risk Mitigation Programme have to do.
In spite of heavy rain and floods affecting much of Britain this Spring, Southern Britain, is still officially in drought.
What to many people seems a perplexing contradiction can be explained by science and that's why geologists from the LWEC-accredited Groundwater Science Programme, led by the Natural Environment Research Council, have been helping the BBC's Inside Out programme makers.
The UK's National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) continues to generate international interest and is proving influential in the way other nations approach their own assessments.
