News and Events for Researchers

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…

Nanomaterials. Photo: Siarhei_AdobeStock
18.12.2019

Nanotechnology is booming, but risk assessment for these tiny particles is a laborious process that presents significant…

UKCEH directors
18.12.2019

We are pleased to announce that, as of 1 December 2019, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is an independent research…

12.12.2019

Children like vegetables, fruit, and berries that they have grown and cooked themselves. Day-care centres can reduce…

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…