News and Events for Researchers

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…

20.04.2020

Mining in Greenland began in the 1850s with the opening of the cryolite mine in Ivittuut in South Greenland. Since then,…

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…