News about climate change
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06 March 2015
Researchers connect climate change to food safety
- Climate change can affect our food safety in a number of ways. In a European study, researchers at Wageningen University and Ghent University... -
28 January 2015
ERC grant of 2.3 million for Wouter Peters’ Amazon research
- “We’re going to measure things that have never before been measured in an area we know far too little about. I’m convinced... -
20 October 2014
Important role for ‘deceitful’ plants in vegetation of the future
- One of the most important issues botanists are currently tackling is how plants will react to future climate changes. After all, this reaction will... -
16 September 2014
SGL wins 2 Excellent Course Awards
- 2 SGL courses among 30 best of Wageningen -
11 September 2014
Atmosphere northern hemisphere has lower self-cleaning capacity than previously thought
- Pollution is being removed more slowly from the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere than previously assumed. An international research team that... -
15 August 2014
Butterflies switch lifestyles using hormones
- Many habitats on Earth change dramatically with the seasons, profoundly affecting food availability, predation pressure and reproductive opportunities... -
14 August 2014
Arnhem plants the world’s first ‘urban climate tree’
- Arnhem has planted the world’s first ever stadsklimaatboom (‘urban climate tree’) in the Sonsbeekkwartier. This district is... -
04 July 2014
Climate engineering offers little hope of mitigation
- Injecting particles into the stratosphere to shade and cool the Earth will never stop climate change. This is the shocking claim made in the July... -
04 June 2014
Human intervention in water levels has greater impact on river deltas than sea level rise
- The rise in the sea level is not discernible in trends of extreme water levels, so a study by Wageningen University, Utrecht University and Nanjing... -
17 April 2014
Floods in Bangladesh; support from Wageningen UR highlighted in Nature
- Bangladesh is a dynamic delta, in which fighting poverty and economic development go hand in hand with fighting population pressure and climate...