🧬 Metagenomics in Biodiversity & Ecosystems promotes innovative approaches for the assessment of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems health, relying on expertise from @elixir-it.bsky.social, LifeWatch ERIC and the biodiversity research community. Submit your abstract by 15 May!
🐠 bit.ly/4bj2eFy

Greetings from Copenhagen, where we have had the pleasure to be hosted at the SUBMERSE project final event. Alberto Basset (LifeWatch ERIC) took part in the Research Infrastructures panel, focused on solutions to unleash the fibre sensing potential.👇

You don't want to miss the upcoming webinar series hosted by @bgbol.org kicking off on 23 April ⬇️ 💡

@tdwg.org 2026: Call for abstracts 🎉

You're invited to submit abstracts for presentations or posters at #TDWG2026 in Oslo, Norway, 21-25 September.

Submissions are encouraged to consider the theme: 🔬 & 🤖 Research and Robot-ready Biodiversity Data Standards.

🔗 www.tdwg.org/confere...

🌫️ Image of the Week: smoke & haze over Thailand, Laos, Myanmar & neighbouring countries, captured by #Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 14 Apr.

Driven by a mix of agricultural burning & wildfires - exacerbated by warm, dry conditions - has caused air quality impacts across the region. Visit: bit.ly/4tgZ5g1

🤝 Following discussions at the last BEeS Conference, that culminated in the signing of the Crete Declaration, #BEeS2026 has dedicated a whole session to the interrelation of human, animal, plants and ecosystem health.
Submit your abstract for a presentation on this topic by 15 May!
👉 bit.ly/4bj2eFy

We are looking forward to the @envri.bsky.social session at @egu.eu. Join the training on ENVRI-Hub data, tools and services for interdisciplinary research.
Read more about the sessions and where to find us at #EGU2026!
👉 bit.ly/4co9UWA

LifeWatch ERIC (@lifewatcheric.bsky.social) The e-Science European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research

Check out Italy's newly developed national #taxonomic database, developed by the Joint Research Unit @lifewatcheric.bsky.social, which compiles and standardizes several checklists with a total of 86,000 entries on #vascular #plants, #lichens, and #fauna: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....

✍️ Secure your spot at the #BEeS2026 Conference by 15 May: www.lifewatch.eu/bees-2026-re...

ICYMI: Join us at #EGU26 for an in-person short course on the #ENVRIHub! 🌍

Data discovery, LLM search, and Jupyter workflows for environmental research.

📅 Thu 07 May | 08:30–10:15 CEST

Trainers from INGV, EPOS, @lifewatcheric.bsky.social, @uva.nl
Interested? forms.gle/84mPeEDQ53Zb...

The @marinesabres.bsky.social Serious Game School Competition is back! 🦭 🐚 We invite teachers across Europe to register classes by 22 May. Students will learn how human communities can manage, protect, and benefit from marine ecosystems.
Don't let your class miss this opportunity!
🐠 bit.ly/4slobsR

Europe's largest coastal lagoon is also one of the most eutrophication-sensitive ecosystems of the Baltic. Researchers have managed to restore the water quality in some areas, but there is still much to do.
Watch the full documentary by @restore4cs.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/3NS9CyZ

Join us at #EGU26 for an in-person short course on the #ENVRIHub! 🌍

Data discovery, LLM search, and Jupyter workflows for environmental research.

📅 Thu 07 May | 08:30–10:15 CEST

Trainers from INGV, EPOS, @lifewatcheric.bsky.social, @uva.nl
Interested? Fill the form: forms.gle/84mPeEDQ53Zb...

BMD promotes mobilising data to FAIR platforms like @gbif.org, @obis.org, Catalogue of Life & ENA. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏻
💻 Our Access Gate offers access to tutorials from these platforms and serves as a base for the BMD training portal, hosted by @lifewatcheric.bsky.social.
🔗 training.lifewatch.eu/en/categorie...

Over recent months we’ve been running our Local Wildlife Site (LWS) panels across Berks and Oxon, reviewing sites surveyed in 2025.

LWS are non‑statutory sites of local importance for biodiversity. They are selected against locally agreed criteria and play a vital role in planning and conservation.

Linking #biodiversity #data is key to answering urgent research questions - but messy scientific names make it hard. Misspellings, synonyms, name changes...

See the proposed new #framework to help users pick the optimal workflow and tool for their needs 👇

#taxonomic #databases #biodiversity

'The well-being of humans is intrinsically linked to the health of our planet' - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The Swedish Red Cross says the argument it first made more than 40 years ago in its ground-breaking 1984 report Prevention is better than cure is vindicated by the experience of the present day. Arguing that “the well-being of humans is intrinsically linked to the health of our planet”, Swedish Red Cross International Director Anders Pedersen says urgent action to stop the loss of biodiversity, restore ecosystems and mit­igate and adapt to climate change is essential to prevent and alleviate human suf­fering. A new SRC report published last week “outlines Swedish Red Cross ambition to step up response to growing humanitarian needs, support Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, and help people adapt to and reduce the impacts of the planetary crises,” Pedersen writes in an introduction. “Humanity faces a choice: to react and re­spond to growing humanitarian needs, which is costly both in terms of human suffering and financial investments, or to invest more in prevention, which saves lives and scarce resources,” he adds. The new report is called Protecting People, Preserving Planet, Swedish Red Cross Framework for Environmental and Climate Change Action. ‘Critical links’ “Today we see how climate-induced hazards create devastating consequences for the most vulnerable...

'The well-being of humans is intrinsically linked to the health of our planet' - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
->Climate Centre | More on "Biodiversity climate human well-being" at BigEarthData.ai | #Space #Planet #Health #Climate

Purple Finch, Central Park, NYC #birdcpp #centralparknyc #purplefinch #birds #bird #biodiversity #birdphotography #purplefinch #conservationphotography markscheflen.com #wildbirdphotography

🎉The registration is open! 🎉

You can now secure your spot at BEeS 2026 by filling out the form at the link below.

🔥 Note: the deadline applies to:
- Call for abstracts
- Social dinner
- Request for early career researchers reduced-fee accommodation

Register here 👉 bit.ly/4bFMUmD

Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change | Nature Reviews Biodiversity Costanza, R. et al. Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Glob. Environ. Change 26, 152–158 (2014). Souter, D. et al. Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020 Report (Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN)/International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), 2021). Fisher, R. et al. Species richness on coral reefs and the pursuit of convergent global estimates. Curr. Biol. 25, 500–505 (2015). Hughes, T. P. et al. Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene. Science 359, 80–83 (2018). Duarte, C. M. et al. Layering solutions to conserve tropical coral reefs in crisis. Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 788–805 (2025). Bistline, J. et al. Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act. Science 380, 1324–1327 (2023). Tollefson, J. Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean? Nature 637, 769–770 (2025). Palazzo Corner, S. et al. The Zero Emissions Commitment and climate stabilization. Front. Sci. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2023.1170744 (2023). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. A Decision Framework for Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs (The National Academies Press, 2019). Neely, K. L. et al. Too hot to handle? The impact of the 2023 marine heatwave on...

Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change | Nature Reviews Biodiversity
->Nature | More on "Coral reef climate adaptation science" at BigEarthData.ai | #ClimateChange #Coral #Biodiversity #Nature #Evolution

🌱 Join Fascination of Plants Day 2026!

On 19 May, our partners at CREA open their doors in Italy for a hands-on event on plant genetics, biodiversity & sustainable agriculture 🌾

Get inspired — and take part in the FoPD yourself: plantday18may.org!

#FoPD2026 #PlantScience #PROWILD

Loïc Pellissier, how can we encourage companies to do a better job of protecting biodiversity? Biodiversity has suffered greatly worldwide. Companies should also do more to protect it. However, they need reliable indicators that quantify the success of measures taken to benefit nature, writes…

In the recent ETH news, our PI, Prof.Loïc Pellissier wrote a perspective on how can we encourage companies to do a better job of protecting biodiversity. Check it out here:

The new issue of the #ENVRI Community Newsletter is here! Check out the latest from the community of environmental RIs: go.egi.eu/1gCxD
👉 Subscribe here: go.egi.eu/m2bFy

#ENVRIHubNEXT #iClimateAction #ENVRINNOV

⏳ Last week to submit your abstract for #OEMCGW26!

Join us 7–9 Oct 2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸 to share your work on #EO, #GeoAI & open data across:
🌿 Biodiversity
🌾 Soil & Water
🌡 Climate & Health

📝 Deadline: April 1 (23:59 CET)
🔗 earthmonitor.org/global-works...

Featured this month: @mambo-project.eu, @marinesabres.bsky.social, @wcmb2026.bsky.social, @restore4cs.bsky.social, @embrc.eu, @aneris.eu, @iriscc.bsky.social, @egu.eu

Our newsletter goes out at the end of each month. Subscribe if you're interested in:
🌱 success stories of nature restoration
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GREENCOOP.EU is a research project aiming to revitalise rural areas through agroecology, digital innovations, and new business models 🌿
Iria Soto (LifeWatch ERIC) explains how the project will design its demonstrators and integrate agroecological innovations!
👉 lnkd.in/dyFRrsAc

We are looking for contributions for long (15 minutes) and short (10 minutes) oral presentations at #BEeS2026, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, from 7 to 10 July.
Take a look at the topics! 👉 bit.ly/4bj2eFy
The abstracts will be published in our final Book of Abstracts and submitted to @arphahub.com.