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As volcanic ash fallout is predicted to reach ground level following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have responded rapidly to increase sampling rates of air quality, soils ...

The 11th International UFZ- Deltares/TNO Conference on Management of Soil, Groundwater and Sediment takes place in Salzburg, Austria from 22-24 September 2010....

The three-year joint Nordic project PROPPEN aims at demonstrating whether the state of coastal waters, suffering from oxygen depletion, can be improved by pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom-near water layers. According to preliminary ...

Denmark's National Environmental Research Institute NERI provides continuous calculations of how the plume with polluted air from the volcano underneath the Icelandic glacier Eyjafjallajökull will spread over Europe during the coming 3 days. The ...

Three Wageningen MSc students have designed a Dutch-style 'water city' for New Orleans. Peter Hermens, Jaap van der Salm and Chris van der Zwet drew up designs for New Orleans that show how the city could live with water and enjoy it. ...

Increased efficiency in the use of agricultural farmland is resulting in homogenisation of butterfly communities and a lower number of butterfly species. As cultivated areas grow in size, important butterfly habitats, such as field margins, meadows ...

Twelve major institutions involved in scientific research have pooled their resources to create the National alliance for environmental research. AllEnvi is the fourth research alliance, following those for health (Aviesan), energy (Ancre) and ...

Director General Henrik Sandbech, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at Aarhus University, has taken over the task as chairman of the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) for the next two years. An essential focal ...

On 27 January a new large European project on greenhouse gas balance in agriculture and forestry was launched. The ambitious aim of this project is to establish a greenhouse gas budget for Europe, including the order of magnitudes of various ...

The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a study published on 9 February 2010 in the scientific journal Global Change Biology. The collaborative study, involving scientists from 12 UK research ...