News archive 2016
-
New service for climate change adaptation in water management - SWICCA, part of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), offers readily available climate-impact data to speed up workflows in climate-change... -
New book: Food Production and Nature Conservation - conflicts and solutions - Today a new book is published by Resource Ecology professor Herbert Prins and colleagues on the relationship between food production and nature... -
Eight million for climate, water and soil - The collaboration between the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment and a consortium of water boards, universities and knowledge institutions was... -
Large-scale demonstration projects for recovering nutrients from manure and sludge - Soon, the first ‘Groene Mineralen Centrale’ (green mineral plant) for the processing of pig manure will be realised. The plant will... -
More nature around the home linked to decreased anxiety disorders - In living environments with more natural elements, such as greenery or water, residents suffer less frequently from anxiety disorders than in... -
Vegetables from Mars awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science - Mars soil researcher Wieger Wamelink has been awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science. He was awarded the prize during the... -
Collaboration key to succes for clusters - Around 400 professionals, academics and policymakers from all over the world are at the three-day TCI Global Conference 2016 in Eindhoven to discuss... -
New partnership between Wageningen University & Research, TNO and Lloyd’sRegister Foundation to study safety at sea - A new study into safety at sea is taking off as part of a partnership between Lloyd’s Register Foundation, Wageningen University & Research... -
Adaptive circular cities - Cities should be resilient against climate change (adaptive) and utilise more useable residual materials as raw materials (circular). Wageningen... -
Natura 2000 network of crucial importance for many European species - In 2015 the European Commission published the report The State of Nature in the European Union - giving the status of and trends for habitat types and...