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Inauguration Liesbeth Bakker: ‘If you give nature room, it returns rapidly’
- Can giving nature more room help us solve major crises? Liesbeth Bakker, who is to be inaugurated as a professor by special appointment of Rewilding... -
New equipment for soil aggregate research available for use
- Soil aggregates (little “clumps” in the soil) are important for many soil functions. Still, their nature and behaviour are not yet fully... -
Inauguration Marielos Peña Claros: Managing tropical forest to conserve them
- “Tropical forests are important at local, regional and global scales, and we need to conserve them,” says Marielos Peña Claros,... -
Schokland: World heritage site in mixed reality
- What if there was a way to make ancient world heritage come to life? An interactive view that enables you to experience landscapes of the past? The... -
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation
- Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach, and to be effective measures must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture,... -
Can the power of biota bring rocks to the front of climate solutions?
- A newly funded European research consortium investigates whether a low-energy solution for carbon capture can be designed using an ooze of rocks,... -
Five questions about wildfires
- They hit the headlines almost daily in the summer: major wildfires that reduce thousands of hectares to ashes. They seem to be occurring ever more... -
Temperature Tiny Forest up to 20 degrees lower than on the streets on hot days
- Tiny Forests form an excellent solution to drought and heat stress in urban areas. Research by Wageningen Environmental Research shows that... -
High plant diversity often found in smallest of areas
- Although it sounds weird, it is true: the steppes of Eastern Europe are home to a similar number of plant species as the regions of the Amazon... -
Where the wild things are… Which tropical forest mammals occur where?
- Tropical forests sustain hundreds of wonderful and seldom seen mammal species: spanning jaguars, tapirs, monkeys and elephants. Many of these are...