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A new EU funded project MoniFun is building a database on Europe's forests. The aim is to compile comprehensive information on Europe's forests and their links to climate change, society...

The 2023 revised LULUCF regulation will require Tier 2 methods for monitoring all land and carbon pools by the reporting of the 2026 emission year, and then later...

Over the last few months, ESA’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite has been going through a punishing series of tests to make sure that it will...

Earth’s ecosystems are undergoing profound and accelerating transformation because of climate change and other human-caused pressures. Changes in natural disturbance regimes play an important and conspicuous...

This report describes the maps on tree species distribution routinely produced at Joint Research Centre, and the data sets used to produce them. Its aim is to help those...

The course is open to all interested in digital platforms and tools for forest and land monitoring, and is entirely based on an interactive, learning-by-doing approach, offering a wide range of case studies...

Over the last decades, the natural disturbance is increasingly putting pressure on European forests. Shifts in disturbance regimes may compromise forest functioning and the continuous provisioning of ecosystem...

European forests are being increasingly affected by natural disturbances, a new ground-based observation study shows.

Report finds that most nations are not on track to meet global pledge to protect Earth’s forests.

This document summarizes the design process, definitions, and algorithmic implementation conducted by the Joint Research Centre to support the development and implementation of a global analysis of forest attribute layers. The analysis...