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Kooistra inaugurated as Professor of Remote Sensing: 'Working on optimal agricultural systems’
October 4, 2023 - Lammert Kooistra will be inaugurated as a personal professor of Remote Sensing at Wageningen University & Research's Laboratory of Geoinformatics... -
Running for climate: ‘Marathon is a metaphor for the climate crisis’
October 2, 2023 - Climate expert Tim ran the Jungfrau marathon in Switzerland with a team of ten other climate scientists on Saturday, 9 September, as a positive way to... -
Aquatic animals can help purify our wastewater
September 28, 2023 - Aquatic creatures may help purify our wastewater. A team of researchers investigated how invertebrates, such as worms, non-biting midge larvae and... -
High uncertainty in climate impact of global forests; a call for more complete estimation
September 27, 2023 - The summer of 2023 leaves an image of burning forests globally. However, this is not the total picture. What the real role of global forests in... -
Water quality deteriorating in rivers worldwide due to climate change
September 12, 2023 - Climate change and increases in drought and rainstorms pose serious challenges to our water management. Not only the availability of water is under... -
ERC Starting Grant for research on natural regeneration
September 7, 2023 - The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of 400 Starting Grants to young scientists and scholars across Europe. One of them is... -
Amsterdam: how hot is it in your house?
September 6, 2023 - Are you living in Amsterdam and suffering from the heat, or are you keeping your cool? We'd like to hear how warm it is at your place and how you're... -
CO2 storage in farming soils barely helps the climate
September 5, 2023 - Sequestering CO2 in farming soils is promoted as an excellent strategy to mitigate climate change. Is this actually the case, however? Several soil... -
Nature more nitrogen-sensitive than previously thought: critical loads lowered
September 1, 2023 - The average critical load for nitrogen deposition in the Netherlands is lower than previously assumed, according to new research by Wageningen... -
Mansholt lecture 2023: A natural future for Europe in 2120
September 1, 2023 - In the future Europe, humans will collaborate with nature to combat the effects of climate change and allow biodiversity to flourish. That is the core...