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Last October, the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) signed its next framework contract for production of the Urban Atlas product suite. Urban Atlas is CLMS’...

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the Soil Day - 5 December 2023

A key driver of global biodiversity loss is land use, which involves converting or modifying natural ecosystems to produce biomass for human consumption. A new study explores...

The health of Europe’s forests and linked ecosystems are facing an increasing number of challenges, including deforestation due to urban development, pollution and impacts of climate change, all...

The researchers, who collaborated with citizen scientists to monitor Berlin’s bats, recommend minimising artificial light at night and creating good access for bats to forest patches and water...

Local infrastructure interventions, such as existing blue (aquatic), and green (terrestrial) infrastructures for storm-water management and climate adaptation – can also aid biodiversity in human-dominated...

This study considers the potential for recovery of invertebrate communities in urban streams based on 12 years of data from a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. The researchers report that streams with natural...

The new European Ground Motion Service provides free and accessible ground motion data to anyone who wishes to use it.

A new story of the Atlas of Demography illustrates the links between urbanisation and demographic trajectories: the proportion of people living in cities continues to grow in world regions and countries with high...

Major demographic transitions are occurring across all world regions, at different paces and with different implications. Important trends are already visible and others are...