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News 2021
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Freya Senf appointed Director of Operations of WUR Environmental Sciences Group
- The Executive Board has appointed Freya Senf as the new Director of Operations of the Environmental Sciences Group. She will start on 1 January 2022.... -
'We conclude' or 'I believe'? Rationality declined decades ago
- The use of rationality related words has been on the rise since 1850, but started an accelerating decline around 1980. This is concluded by research... -
Nitrous oxide as a greenhouse gas: 30 questions and answers
- Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, was historically used as an anaesthetic during surgery in hospitals. Nowadays, it is also known as a party drug with... -
How to turn tension into transformation
- One could imagine when researchers and people outside academia work together in a “co-production” process, things do not always run... -
Tropical forests regrow surprisingly fast
- Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate through deforestation. A new study, published in Science, shows that regrowing tropical forests... -
Albert van Dijk appointed professor Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management
- The Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research has appointed Prof. Albert van Dijk as professor of the Hydrology and Quantitative Water... -
Forests with variations in traits absorb more carbon
- Forests are being planted in large numbers all over the world. Many of them are intended to remove CO2 from the air in order to reduce global warming.... -
New tower measures CO2 absorption on the Veluwe
- In the Loobos forest near Kootwijk, a huge steel structure was erected to facilitate research on greenhouse gases. It was officially opened last... -
The sink that can lead to CO2 removal
- It's a bit of an odd one out,' says Eric Arets, referring to the LULUCF sector. Or: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry. It is the only sector that... -
New content about Ghana case
- Are you interested in our work in Ghana? Then visit our case study page and learn how we dealt with participatory modelling without input from direct...