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The PEER institutes have combined their expertise on biodiversity and ecosystem services into a new initiative. The initiative is designed to deliver innovative scientific research products with policy relevance. It is also meant to facilitate ...

The PEER centres are forming a joint staff exchange programme in order to facilitate joint working, knowledge exchange, dissemination of best practices and collaboration at all levels between the centres. The development of collaboration between the ...

PEER began a benchmarking working group in 2008 in order to monitor its achievements from scientific and societal perspectives. The results show that PEER centres are involved in 295 FP6/7 projects funded by the EC, and in 52% two or more PEER ...

The World Day to Combat Desertification focuses on desertification problems around the world, and this year researchers are joining hands with farmers around the world to stand up to one of the greatest, yet most overlooked environmental problems. ...

A new study of biological invasions in Europe found they were linked not so much to changes in climate or land cover, but to two dominant factors - more money and more people. Wealth and population density, along with an increase in international ...

Newly published data from the UK, France, Italy and Nigeria provides evidence that a number of snake species populations declined synchronously over a four-year period. The research, published in the journal Biology Letters, was led by Dr Chris ...

On the 8th of June 2010 the IES launched its new brochure: ‘Science for the environment’. The brochure gives an insight into many activities and achievements of the JRC’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability over the past two ...

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI and the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE are increasing their joint monitoring of the state of the environment in the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic Proper and the Kattegat. A TransAtlantic ...

In 2010, proclaimed the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’ by the United Nations, tropical forests are no less endangered than before. Though in some regions, forests are certainly recovering, deforestation and woodland degradation continue ...

Political decisions are among the main driving forces that influence the survival of biodiversity. They have a direct impact on decisions in key areas of man’s interaction with nature and the countryside, e.g. through agriculture, traffic or ...