News of the Soil Physics and Land Management Group
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EU project to explore the impacts of plastic debris on soil health and agricultural productivity
- The impacts of plastic debris on soil health are largely unknown despite equal, or possibly greater, amounts of plastics entering soils as are... -
Accelerating the transition towards sustainable pest control in agriculture - introducing the SPRINT project
- The use of pesticides represents a risk to human and environmental health. It affects the health of soil, water, and biodiversity and recent research... -
Pesticides on the wrong track
- Pesticides should remain where they were applied. However, environmental researchers have found - through measurements over the past year and a half -... -
SPRINT project launched
- On September 1th 2020, the SPRINT project has officially started. WUR is coordinating this new and exciting EU-funded project. SPRINT aims to bring... -
Education project started in Iraq
- Karrar Mahdi, an Iraqi scientist at the Soil Physics and Land Management group (SLM) in Wageningen, will coordinate the project "Efficient water... -
Video: How do pesticides affect soil health?
- The industrialization of agriculture increased the crop yield, but more and more the negative side of this boom. 2.000 pesticides with 5.000 different... -
Pesticide residues present in more than 80% of European agricultural soils
- Soil contamination by pesticide residues has become an issue of increasing concern in the last few decades. Researchers from Wageningen University... -
PhD degree Joop Kroes: Upward Groundwater Flows and Land Use
- On October 25th, a few months after his retirement, Joop Kroes received his PhD degree on his research into upward groundwater flows, an important... -
Karrar Mahdi awarded by the ambassador of Iraq
- On the 16th of August 2018 Karrar Mahdi was awarded a certificate of appreciation for finishing his PhD study from the ambassador of Iraq in the... -
Excellent Education Award for Jantiene Baartman
- Jantiene Baartman (with colleagues Marijn van der Meij and Jeroen Schoorl) was awarded with an Excellent Education Award. SLM31806 Erosion Processes...