With increasing species richness, due to more plant introductions than extinctions, plant communities of many European regions are becoming more homogeneous. The same species are occurring more frequently, whereas rare species are becoming extinct. ...

Species distribution models are of only limited use in predicting the future distribution of mammals. This is the finding of a study of the climate niches of 140 indigenous European mammals. The researchers analysed data on species distribution, ...

The Joensuu Forestry Networking Week 2010 welcomes young scientists, professionals and stakeholders in forestry from across Europe to participate in a unique forum with the objective to improve participants' expertise and knowledge on forest-water ...

Even the snow on Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes is polluted with PCBs. An international team of researchers detected low concentrations of these toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds in samples taken from America’s highest mountain. The snow ...

It is now possible to follow Finland’s greenhouse gas emissions in almost real time on the internet. The emission monitoring scheme involves all of the provinces in mainland Finland, and more than twenty cities and municipalities around the country. ...

The INSPIRE Directive establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community entered into force on the 15th May 2007. The Member States of the European Union are in the process of adopting their national legislation to the ...

Plant roots can shrink as a result of water deficit and lose contact with the surrounding soil. This effect has been suspected for a long time, but has only now been demonstrated for a fact with the help of x-ray tomography. The formation of an air ...

A comprehensive book on carbon-energy taxation has been released by Oxford University Press. The book is edited by professors Mikael Skou Andersen, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Aarhus University and Paul Ekins, University ...

Videos recorded of the METIER Final Conference are now available for viewing at European Commission's website. The conference "Climate - Water - Biodiversity - Land Use: Young Scientists Tackling Complex Environmental Challenges" was held in ...

A group of researchers led by ecological modelling experts Dr Thorsten Wiegand and Dr Andreas Huth and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) has begun work at the UFZ in Leipzig. The researchers will receive over EUR 2 million in research ...