News and Events for Researchers

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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…

11.02.2020

Climate emissions have decreased in nearly all Finnish municipalities since 2005. The average decrease is 15 per cent.…

Mussels
10.02.2020

The work by an international research team, led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the British…

Pesticide analysis
10.02.2020

Computer modelling and long-term ecological monitoring will be essential to assess the environmental risks of the…

Bumble bee pollinates a flower . Photo: André Künzelmann / UFZ
29.01.2020

Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. Researchers from central Germany have now published…

Chemical mixtures. Photo: Rade Lukovic - Fotolia
23.01.2020

Combined chemical and bioanalytical methods are able to efficiently characterise chemical mixtures.

20.12.2019

Failure to limit global warming will lead to a less resilient supply of the ‘green water’ that plants and crops need to…