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News 2021
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Method for assessing progress on Paris climate goals
May 3, 2021 - Scientists propose a new method for assessing progress toward the Paris Agreement's climate goal - limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees above... -
Detecting Inequality from Space
April 26, 2021 - Scientists from Wageningen, Utrecht and Nanjing University found a way to estimate income inequality from nighttime light emissions. So-far inequality... -
Reduction in nitrogen deposition leads to biodiversity recovery
April 15, 2021 - In the meadows around Wageningen, which have been the subject of intensive research since the 1950s, plant diversity declined sharply between 1950 and... -
Tropical mangroves in Wageningen
April 6, 2021 - Researchers at Wageningen University & Research have come up with a creative solution to continue their climate research on tropical marine... -
Worldwide forest carbon sources and sinks mapped in unprecedented detail
March 31, 2021 - A new interactive map of carbon sources and sinks from forests around the world confirm that forests take up twice as much carbon as they release. In... -
Savannas of the sea: “Pristine seagrass meadows were often heavily grazed”
March 31, 2021 - Seagrasses are important for our coastal protection, biodiversity and carbon sequestration. But contrary to popular belief, dense, waving seagrass... -
Scientists call for a broader approach for biodiversity to turn the tide
March 26, 2021 - In a paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, scientists call for a broader and pluralistic approach to biodiversity. Biodiversity is... -
Scientists call for a broader approach for biodiversity to turn the tide
March 26, 2021 - In a paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, scientists call for a broader and pluralistic approach to biodiversity. Biodiversity is... -
Research calculates: human consumes less than a grain of salt of microplastics per week
March 19, 2021 - Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that can end up in the environment and the human body. It is not yet clear how harmful microplastic particles... -
The missing chapter in the 2021 Housing Action Agenda: “The green acceleration”
March 15, 2021 - Within ten years not only one million houses have to be built in the Netherlands, they also need to be sustainable. This is a realistic ambition...