News and Events for Researchers

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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…

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