News Wageningen University & Research
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Pragmatism is a silent killer when it comes to the climate problem - While many of her colleagues are in search of pragmatic solutions for the climate problem, Esther Turnhout, professor forest- and nature policy and... -
Presentation of the Wageningen Universiteit Vijfje to Louise Fresco - In front of the Roman goddess of agriculture Ceres, mint master Stephan Satijn has unveiled the design of the latest commemorative coin, the... -
Building your own DNA and eating plant-based meat during the sunny Campus Safari - Sundays are usually quiet on campus, but not on 7 October, when hundreds of children and their parents went in search of the 'Big Five' as part of... -
Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable - If we all start eating more healthy and plant-based foods, halve our food loss, recycle more waste and improve our agricultural practices, then by... -
Amazon absorbed less carbon during the El Niño weather event - The Amazon rain forest absorbed less carbon during the 2015/2016 El Niño. This is apparent from a special issue of Philosophical Transactions... -
High-res data offer most detailed look yet at trawl fishing footprint around the world - About a quarter of the world’s seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the... -
"We need to start thinking differently about the climate problem" - For Wouter Peters, professor of Meteorology and Air Quality and speaker at the Symposium “Earth Futures” on 19 October, the physical story... -
Bas Arts appointed part-time Chief Scientist at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency - Bas Arts has been appointed Chief Scientist at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, effective 15 October.In July, Arts stepped down from... -
Making farming attractive again in India - Wageningen University and Research has entered into a partnership with the Subhash Chandra Foundation, a philanthropic organisation set up by the... -
WUR helps design uniquely productive complex rice system in Indonesia - A joint project by Wageningen University and Research (the Netherlands) and Brawijaya University (Indonesia) has resulted in cultivation methods which...