Heatwaves are affecting the supply of water, which is essential for cooling power plants and for the production of fuels…
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Unless we take action, pristine tropical moist forests more than half the area of the EU will disappear by 2050 – new EU…
Since 1990, the Baltic Sea has on average warmed by almost 2 °C, Finnish sea areas even more than that. Nutrient…
Around 129 million farmers depend on meltwater from the Himalayan glaciers for their crop production and livelihoods.…
How does the expansion or intensification of arable farming affect global agricultural markets and biodiversity?
Underwater nature of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is spectacular with its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests.…
Frankincense is being traded for a few thousand years already and cherished by hundreds of millions worldwide. But its…
Tundra and natural forests in Northern Europe are more sensitive to extreme dry and hot climatic events than…
The past two years were characterized by deadly wildfires in Southern Europe and an increasing number of wildfires in…
A recent JRC study investigated the effects of extreme climatic events on agricultural commodity markets.