News and Events for Researchers

06.05.2019

A global social and ecological emergency has been declared at today's launch of the IPBES Global Assessment of…

03.05.2019

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) for environmental monitoring has been presented as a technique to replace existing…

02.05.2019

A recent Biological Conservation article that reviews 144 national biodiversity plans finds that developing countries,…

25.04.2019

New IPC food security classification: ‘Famine Likely’   The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has…

17.04.2019

What could a future above 2°C look like? What do we want our future to look like? The EU-funded IMPRESSIONS project…

European freshwater and coastal water assessment is regulated by the Water Framework Directive. ©Fotolia, by shaiith
16.04.2019

A recent EU-funded study introduces a new holistic approach to water quality assessment that combines the…

Páramos biome in the Northern Andes
11.04.2019

UK and Colombian scientists are collaborating on PARAGUAS, a project studying how the diversity of plants and activities…

CEH Lancaster mesocosms
11.04.2019

The mesocosm facility is highly versatile and can be used for an array of different experiments from a few weeks to…

10.04.2019

The Girl from Yde is the most iconic bog body of the Netherlands, also because of the facial reconstruction from 1994.…

10.04.2019

The agriculture sector faces increasing environmental risks, such as drought, flooding and erosion, related to climate…