News and Events for Researchers

The butterfly species Small Blue (Cupido minimus). Photo: Erk Dallmeyer
29.05.2020

The European Union's (EU) network of Natura 2000 conservation areas is designed to protect endangered animal and plant…

28.05.2020

The 2020 edition of The State of the World's Forests (SOFO), published last week, calls for urgent action to safeguard…

Panorama of Helsinki with Cathedral. Source: bearinthenorth, Pixabay
27.05.2020

The EEEN2020 takes place in Helsinki, Finland from 4-5 November 2020. The workshop´s title reads: „Environmental…

18.05.2020

The May issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - was published today, alongside the Turkey edition…

15.05.2020

A global study led by Crowther Lab and co-authored by Wageningen University & Research, finds climate change is…

15.05.2020

The urgency of actions to recover from the COVID-19 crisis must not deter long-term climate objectives. The recovery…

07.05.2020

The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method developed by European Commission is used to assess the environmental…

River Elbe (Germany) in June 2018
01.05.2020

Inland waters such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Calculations that…

29.04.2020

The number of people battling acute hunger and suffering from malnutrition is on the rise again. The upheaval set in…

20.04.2020

Anthropogenic activities like deforestation and the wild animal trade expose humans to new microbes. Although such…