07.12.2020
Eklipse & Alternet: Bridging the gap between policy and knowledge on biodiversity in Europe
Behind Eklipse is a row of three EU-funded projects coordinated by UFZ and more than 800 experts.
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12.04.2021
The European bioeconomy in 2050: four foresight scenarios
The Commission’s 2020 Strategic Foresight Report mentions the potential of a sustainable bioeconomy, to transform Europe’s agricultural and industrial base and create new jobs, whilst enhancing our natural resources and ecosystems.
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06.04.2021
International cooperation to reduce pollution in Barents region continues despite of pandemic
Environment continues to be a high priority for the Barents cooperation. Foreign Ministers of the four Barents countries - Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden - emphasized it during the annual International Kirkenes Conference held on 17 February this...
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31.03.2021
Jordan’s worsening water crisis a warning for the world - Study shows: Only a comprehensive reform can help
Prolonged and potentially destabilizing water shortages will become commonplace in Jordan by 2100, new research by an international team of researchers including the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) finds, unless the nation...
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29.03.2021
EU project PrecisionTox starts - Focus on protecting people from the harmful effects of chemicals
A major research project to shape regulation and policy on chemical safety without the use of animal testing has been launched with the aid of €19.3M funding from the European Commission. Under the lead of the University of Birmingham, 15 European...
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26.03.2021
Keeping Europe’s seas clean: a new manual for harmonised litter monitoring
Released today, a new manual will support people entrusted with monitoring marine litter to record the data they collect in a harmonised way.
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22.03.2021
World Water Day calls attention to valuing water – Finnish Environment Institute offers versatile water expert services worldwide
Today we celebrate the World Water Day and this year’s theme is ‘Valuing Water’. As stated by the UN High Level Panel on Water: “In order to recognise the value of water you need to understand water and manage it sustainably”.
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22.03.2021
PEER-webinar on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and risk
The webinar, open for all PEER members, will summarise insights from PEER-TRISD project, and provide ideas for future work on the Sustainable Development Goals, resilience and adaptation in PEER organisations. The webinar is on Tuesday, May 18, at...
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17.03.2021
Coronavirus: Commission adopts a common approach to track COVID-19 through wastewater monitoring
Today, the European Commission adopted a Recommendation on monitoring COVID-19 and its variants in wastewaters in the EU. The aim is to make greater use of a new source of independent information on the spread of the virus and its variants, which...
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04.03.2021
Aranda’s monitoring cruise: Record high temperatures in some areas in the Baltic Sea, increasing phosphorus concentrations in the Archipelago Sea and the Bothnian Sea
Water temperatures in the Baltic Sea are increasing and the deep-water temperatures are record-high in some areas. Phosphorus concentrations are rising in the central part of the Archipelago Sea and the Bothnian Sea. The observations were made during...
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02.03.2021
Sniffing in the name of science. Detection dogs help generate important data for research and conservation.
The lists of Earth’s endangered animals and plants are getting increasingly longer. But in order to stop this trend, we require more information. It is often difficult to find out exactly where the individual species can be found and how their...
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