Experts from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) are joining leading scientists from across Europe to provide practical and effective solutions for addressing the global biodiversity crisis.
The new four-year project, BIONEXT, funded by the EU’s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will produce new evidence to demonstrate how biodiversity underpins every aspect of life, including the water we drink, the food we eat, and our health.
It will also make recommendations on how governments, businesses, groups and other organisations can support nature and reverse biodiversity loss as a part of decision-making.
Read more at: Georgia Institute of Technology
Along the highest peaks in North Carolina, an isolated spruce-fir boreal forest stands as a relict of the Pleistocene, contrasting with deciduous trees on the Southern Appalachians. (Photo Credit: Mount Mitchell State Park by Jess Hunt-Ralston, Georgia Institute of Technology)