The International Mountain Day (IMD) was designated by The United Nations General to raise awareness on the importance of mountains to life and it is celebrated on 11 December, since 2003. Mountains are extremely important to life maintenance, as they supply half of the world’s population with freshwater and support...

Water-related disasters accounted for 74 percent of all-natural disasters between 2001 and 2018, and their frequency and intensity are generally rising. Changes in land cover/use, population growth, and climate change have resulted in an increase of floods frequency from an average of 127 events per year in 1995–2004 to 171...

The blog post focuses on the importance of the engagement of the forest and water sectors in policy processes, as well as the contributions of the Forest and Water Champions, which is an expert network that advocates better understanding the interactions and consequences of forest-water interlinkages.

How do we want our future to look like after the COVID-19 pandemic? This was one of the questions raised previously “Lessons learned from COVID-19 crisis to the better management of our forest and water”.  The COVID-19 impact on human life, forests, and water has already resulted in short term consequences....

Forests are among the most important biodiversity repositories and home to about 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Riparian forests maintain and support aquatic biodiversity by providing shade, protecting the soil from erosion, acting as a chemical buffer, and providing nutritious terrestrial inputs to aquatic food webs. These inputs from...