Earthwatch Europe launches new teacher training and resource platform
18th January 2021
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Launch of The Bakery Sustainability Lab
18th January 2021
The Bakery and Earthwatch Europe are proud to announce the launch of our new initiative that will help corporations to drive forward their journey towards sustainable growth. The Bakery... Read more
New book The Science of Citizen Science brings together the latest citizen science research and best practice
12th January 2021
The Science of Citizen Science represents the culmination of four years of international research and knowledge exchange. Published open access by Springer, it aims to provide a comprehensive point of... Read more
Early Career Research Learning Opportunities with NERC Engaging Environments Partnership
6th January 2021
Engaging Environments Early Career Researchers, 2019, credit John Hunt The challenge for researchers to understand the scale and impact of the threats facing our planet and society has never... Read more
Earthwatch Europe researchers identify opportunity for citizen science-led soil health monitoring to contribute to Sustainable Development Goal indicators
11th December 2020
This is despite soils being vital to life on earth and essential to sustainable development. The paper provides a review of existing citizen science methods and platforms for soil health... Read more
Earthwatch Europe researchers show how citizen science can contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goals
10th December 2020
The UN SDG indicators are the mechanism through which UN member states measure the progress of the SDGs. As citizen science has been increasingly recognised as having a potentially important... Read more
Tiny Forests given a boost from Green Recovery Challenge Fund
9th December 2020
We will use the funding to establish 12 Tiny Forests in urbanised areas across the UK. We will engage local communities, including schools, in planting Tiny Forests and monitoring their... Read more
Save our soils
3rd December 2020
We are pleased to announce the winners of our soil art competition in celebration of World Soils Day and the launch of the UKSoils online soils hub! In first place... Read more
Earthwatch expands EU activity with new Netherlands presence
19th November 2020
Earthwatch is an active partner in a number of EU-funded citizen science research projects, such as MICS, MONOCLE and EU-Citizen.Science, working with organisations around Europe. We also run several projects... Read more
Earthwatch wins gold Corporate Engagement Award, for Best Environmental or Sustainability Programme.
18th November 2020
The award recognises our partnership with HSBC on the Sustainability Leadership Programme (SLP). CEA judges said the SLP was an impressive and creative approach to environmental stewardship. The awards had entries... Read more
Soils need you!
17th November 2020
Soils are essential for all life-sustaining processes on our?planet. They support biodiversity, clean water, climate regulation and so much more - and yet they are being degraded at an alarming... Read more
New toolkit opens up citizen science for researchers
9th November 2020
The Citizen Science Toolkit for Biodiversity Scientists demonstrates the potential benefits, a summary of the rationale to develop citizen science, current best practices and further useful resources. As more and... Read more
Report reveals evidence of water pollution across the Thames Valley
3rd November 2020
The Thames Valley catchment has medium to high concentrations of nitrate and phosphate nutrients throughout key indicators of agricultural and waste water pollution High nitrates are common across all... Read more
Free webinar series: The benefits of Nature-based Solutions in cities
20th October 2020
Each interdisciplinary webinar session will explore how NbS can improve a specific ecosystem services, such as carbon storage, natural flood management, improving thermal comfort, and water quality. Join guest speakers... Read more
GUEST BLOG: Clean Water and Sanitation, and the Tower of Babel
15th September 2020
When I spoke with Izzy from the environmental charity Earthwatch Europe about her experience of supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 on clean water and sanitation, an image came to... Read more