News and Events for Researchers
Raw Materials Scoreboard highlights urgency to strengthen the resilience and sustainability of raw materials supply in the EU
Today, the Commission presented the 3rd Raw Materials Scoreboard at the 2021 Raw Materials Week. The Scoreboard presents an in-depth analysis of Europe’s raw material supply chains, their competitiveness and trade flows.
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Mainstreaming ecological restoration of streams, rivers and peatlands promotes green development in Europe
This year's exceptional weather conditions, such as the floods in Germany, have drawn attention to the inefficiency of dams and flood walls in the flood management. Instead of these, Professor Daniel Hering from the University of Duisburg-Essen, is...
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Evaluation of the risks of chemical mixtures to human health
Panoramix (Providing risk assessments of complex real-life mixtures for the protection of European citizens and the environment) is a 4-year project supported by the European Commission with a € 4.4 M grant through the Horizon Europe program. The...
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Harbour porpoises and the construction of Nord Stream 2
Nord Stream 2 pipeline could be constructed without affecting the Baltic Proper porpoise population or the integrity of the Natura2000 area.
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Consortium on microbiological research started
The National Research Data Infrastructure for Microbiological Research (NFDI4Microbiota) aims to achieve better access to data, new tools for analysing data, standards for data and metadata, and a comprehensive training programme for scientists. It...
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Earth observation applications for climate change adaptation and mitigation
Climate change adaptation and mitigation are to be studied with the help of data and Artificial Intelligence in a new international research project.
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Degradation of biobased plastics in the soil
The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ecologists at the Helmholtz Centre for...
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Webinar: SCALING & OPTIMAL NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR RESILIENT CITIES
Concepts for a tool that quantify the demand and potential for NBS to enhance ecosystem service (ES) provision and linking ESs to readily quantifiable and legislatively relevant environmental quality indicators, will be presented alongside with...
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Dissertation: Micro- and mesoplastics in the northern Baltic Sea: their fate in the seafloor and effects on benthic fauna
In her doctoral dissertation, Pinja Näkki, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, has experimentally studied risks that organisms such as bivalves living on the seafloor face from microplastics.
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Forest edges in the tropics increase carbon emissions
The deforestation of the tropical rainforests is progressing unstoppably. According to scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), these forests are becoming fragmented at a higher rate than expected. By analysing...
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