Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.
In 2013, Matthew Hansen and his colleagues used satellite data to produce the first global, high-resolution maps of where trees are growing and disappearing
Forest landscape restoration took the spotlight at a high-level workshop at IUCN Congress in Hawai‘i, relating to Bonn Challenge pledgers and partners.
Leaders at 2016 World Water Week posed the crucial question of ‘how’? “Implementation, implementation, implementation – Just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD, when asked at Stockholm’s World Water Week what three priority strategies the water sector should be focusing on this year. Stockholm — known […]
A recent study identifies sustainable consumption and production practices as key to achieving both environmental and food security targets simulataneously.
Climate Action and Sustainable Land Use in Forestry and Agriculture. Forests and agriculture play a key role for achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Mining activities, whether artisanal or industrial in scale, result in two types of environmental and social impacts: primary impacts and secondary impacts.
Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals on hunger and poverty will require a 50 percent increase in food production in the next 15 years. In fact, a global food revolution is urgently needed, argues a recent paper by a number of leading scientists working with the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). Without […]
Check out in-depth coverage of the Global Landscapes Forum 2016—The Investment Case, including shifting trends in private sector funding of landscapes.
