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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 ...

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 ...

Climate change analysts are increasingly making use of scenarios, which help them to think about plausible future developments in society, economy and the environment and the possible consequences of different policy actions. The current set of ...

The climatic warming will increase the carbon dioxide emissions from soil more than previously estimated. This is a mechanism that will significantly accelerate climate change. Already now the carbon dioxide emissions from soil are ten times higher ...

On behalf of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers, EurAgEng and of the French Society of Engineers and Technicians in Mechanization and Agricultural Engineering, SitmAFGR, Cemagref organizes the International Conference on Agricultural ...