Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

HO Pörtner, RJ Scholes, A Arneth, DKA Barnes… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Earth's biodiversity and human societies face pollution, overconsumption of natural
resources, urbanization, demographic shifts, social and economic inequalities, and habitat …

Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

SL Maxwell, V Cazalis, N Dudley, M Hoffmann… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Humanity will soon define a new era for nature—one that seeks to transform decades of
underwhelming responses to the global biodiversity crisis. Area-based conservation efforts …

Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth

CX Cunningham, GJ Williamson… - Nature ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Climate change is exacerbating wildfire conditions, but evidence is lacking for global trends
in extreme fire activity itself. Here we identify energetically extreme wildfire events by …

A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems

DA Keith, JR Ferrer-Paris, E Nicholson, MJ Bishop… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract As the United Nations develops a post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the
Convention on Biological Diversity, attention is focusing on how new goals and targets for …

The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth

P Schultheiss, SS Nooten, R Wang, MKL Wong… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Knowledge on the distribution and abundance of organisms is fundamental to
understanding their roles within ecosystems and their ecological importance for other taxa …

A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018

H Mu, X Li, Y Wen, J Huang, P Du, W Su, S Miao… - Scientific Data, 2022‏ - nature.com
Human Footprint, the pressure imposed on the eco-environment by changing ecological
processes and natural landscapes, is raising worldwide concerns on biodiversity and …

Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods

B Tellman, JA Sullivan, C Kuhn, AJ Kettner, CS Doyle… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Flooding affects more people than any other environmental hazard and hinders sustainable
development,. Investing in flood adaptation strategies may reduce the loss of life and …

Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover map**

CF Brown, SP Brumby, B Guzder-Williams, T Birch… - Scientific Data, 2022‏ - nature.com
Unlike satellite images, which are typically acquired and processed in near-real-time, global
land cover products have historically been produced on an annual basis, often with …

Global land use/land cover with Sentinel 2 and deep learning

K Karra, C Kontgis, Z Statman-Weil… - … and remote sensing …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Land use/land cover (LULC) maps are foundational geospatial data products needed by
analysts and decision makers across governments, civil society, industry, and finance to …

[HTML][HTML] Global 10 m land use land cover datasets: A comparison of dynamic world, world cover and esri land cover

ZS Venter, DN Barton, T Chakraborty, T Simensen… - Remote Sensing, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The European Space Agency's Sentinel satellites have laid the foundation for global land
use land cover (LULC) map** with unprecedented detail at 10 m resolution. We present a …