News and Events for Researchers

12.12.2019

There are dozens of different environmental labels and ecodesign tools for products in operation in the marketplace. The…

27.11.2019

A recent Nature Geoscience article recommends that carbon sequestration strategies consider the inherent soil carbon…

22.11.2019

In ecological compensation local damage caused by construction or industry is offset by improving biodiversity…

20.11.2019

As experts meet for the European Commission’s annual raw materials week, a new JRC report calls for a wide range of…

20.11.2019

The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has studied how biodegradable and bio-based materials actually decompose in the…

12.11.2019

The plant bacterium Xylella fastidiosa severely damaged an estimated 6.5 million olive trees in southern Italy by 2017,…

08.11.2019
The world’s tropical forests store huge quantities of carbon in their biomass and thus constitute an important carbon sink. Photo: R-M-Nunes_Shutterstock
08.11.2019

Innovative combination of forest models with satellite data provide more precise estimates

06.11.2019

Today the African Union (AU) - European Union (EU) partnership officially launched the Pan African Network for economic…

04.11.2019

Between rivers and oceans, estuaries provide shelter to an iconic and at times threatened biodiversity, and are…