News and Events for Researchers

Water’s crucial role in the future of our forests
17.04.2020

Trees play a key role in how terrestrial biodiversity is built. Their trunks, a carbon skeleton of sorts, play a…

03.04.2020

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is calling for applications for its Collaborative Doctoral…

 Researchers examined 48 bodies of running water in Kenya for pesticide contamination, composition of the biological communities and occurrence of snails. Photo: UFZ
02.04.2020

Schistosomiasis is a severe infectious disease caused by parasitic worms. As an intermediate host, freshwater snails…

17.03.2020

According to the dissertation by Mikko Savolahti, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, residential wood…

What we don't know (about lakes) could harm us
04.03.2020

While extreme weather events are increasing in intensity and frequency due to climate change, an international research…

24.02.2020

The ‘European Joint Programme on Agricultural Soil Management’, or EJP SOIL in short, started on 1 February 2020. This…

© INRAE - Christophe MAITRE
24.02.2020

A strong demand from public authorities, agriculture professionals, and society in general, all over Europe, has spurred…

13.02.2020

Areas in which natural processes are given space may function as buffer against climate change. Ever since 2008, the…

Xylella damage to olive trees (photo Steven White, UKCEH)
13.02.2020

A new animation narrated by Dame Helen Mirren warns of the devastation caused by the plant disease Xylella fastidiosa,…

If pregnant women use cosmetics containing parabens, this may have consequences. Photo: Blue Planet Studio/Adobe Stock
12.02.2020

Parabens are used as preservatives in cosmetics. If pregnant women use cosmetics containing parabens that remain on the…