These are part of the discoveries of the 2023 survey of waterbirds and their habitats in the Yellow River Basin released on Wednesday by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Inner...
02 12, 2024
Prof. ZHANG Yongqiang and his team quantified the annual trends in global land water availability from 2001 to 2020. Using a combination of satellite data and large-scale basin observations they defined water availability as the net difference between p...
11 03, 2023
“The International Workshop on Flood Management under a Changing Climate in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) River Basin” sponsored by the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO) collaborative research project was successfully held o...
09 21, 2023
In the Tianshan Mountains in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, a team of researchers was giving trees physical examinations. In this process a stream of water was released from the core of a poplar tree, when it was drilled into by the...
08 21, 2023
During June 26-27, 2023, the “3rd Conference on Climate, Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CEL) -- Addressing the Nexus Issues on Food Security & Food System Resilience in Africa” was organized successfully and fruitfully at UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi, Ke...
07 27, 2023
Prof. CHEN Mingxing’s team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the rising compound risk inequality to ageing and extreme heatwave exposure of global cities under future ...
07 13, 2023
On April 13, 2023, the research team of ANSO Collaborative Research Project entitled “Integrated Flood Services and Climate Change Adaptation for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) River Basin”, attended the hybrid virtual workshop on Building Resili...
04 21, 2023
Min Qingwen, a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and a professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been dedicated to protecting the agricultural heritage sites and promotin...
03 10, 2023
Protected areas (PAs) are essential for biodiversity conservation but are threatened by cropland expansion. Recent studies predicted that approximately 500 million ha of additional croplands will be required in 2050 to address global food demand, which ...
03 24, 2023
Prof. SHI Wenjiao’s team from IGSNRR quantified three important water storages of the canopy layer, litter layer, and soil layers in the forest ecosystems related to water regulation services, and revealed the effect of individual drivers and multiple ...
03 02, 2023
