News and Events for Researchers

01.07.2019

Frankincense is being traded for a few thousand years already and cherished by hundreds of millions worldwide. But its…

27.06.2019

Tundra and natural forests in Northern Europe are more sensitive to extreme dry and hot climatic events than…

21.06.2019

The past two years were characterized by deadly wildfires in Southern Europe and an increasing number of wildfires in…

21.06.2019

A recent JRC study investigated the effects of extreme climatic events on agricultural commodity markets.

20.06.2019

An updated version of the Global Surface Water Explorer was launched at the Living Planet Symposium in Milan last month.…

18.06.2019

On 18 June 2019, the Commission published its assessment of Member States' draft plans to implement the EU's Energy…

17.06.2019

A recent JRC article warns that the extreme drought conditions that affected central and northern Europe's 2018…

13.06.2019

The risk of significant and widespread blue-green algae blooms in Finnish sea areas matches that of previous years,…

06.06.2019

Powerful novel DNA-based methods are being developed to assess biodiversity and the ecological status of water bodies,…

04.06.2019

Ghost nets refer to nets and other gear lost by fishermen that fish by themselves in seas and bodies of water. They are…