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International Day of Forests 2024

Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Forests! Let’s take a deep dive into the significance of forests to our planet and communities, and highlight some innovative new methods being used to conserve these important environments.

Diverse forests are best at standing up to storms

Forests that are most resilient to storms have a greater diversity of tree species and are dominated by slow growing species.

The biosphere cannot save us on its own - our response to COP28

From seagrass to rainforests, natural ecosystems have enormous potential to fight climate change. But the capabilities of the biosphere are being stretched to the limit.

Climate change causing 60% of plants and insects to fall out of synch

Seasonal timings of plants are advancing an average of four times faster than insects, throwing key interactions like pollination out of synch.

Does biodiversity offsetting work?

What influences the effectiveness of offsets schemes?

IPBES Call for Experts and Fellows

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has launched several calls for experts and fellows to participate in drafting their reports.

Invasive plant species threaten 66 percent of India's natural areas

Indian scientists created a unique solution to a lack of invasive plant information.

State of Nature: Ecologists have collected the evidence, now it’s time to act

The latest State of Nature Report rings yet another alarm bell on the biodiversity crisis in the UK, showing major declines in many species.

An assessment of hope: the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report with Helen Roy

Helen Roy, lead author, discusses the new IPBES report on invasive alien species

Biodiversity credits: everything you need to know

Find out what they are and all about the race to develop the best method for measuring biodiversity.

New IPBES report delivers “wakeup call” on the growing global threats of invasive species

Global efforts to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 could be jeopardised by rising cases of invasive species.

Great tits in cities have paler plumage than their forest-living relatives

The researchers found that the effects of cities on great tits vary across Europe.

Small urban greening projects can dramatically increase number of insect species in cities

The benefits of urban greening projects are finally quantifiable with use of new method.

British Ecological Society joins call for radical new government nature commitments

British Ecological Society signs open letter calling for the UK government to ramp up environmental ambitions as part of Nature 2030.

New coral reef restoration approach utilises common investment strategy

Just like forest restoration, coral reef restoration requires more than just fast growing species.