News of the Soil Physics and Land Management Group
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Pesticide Use in Nepal: The Assessment of Residues and Risks
G (Govinda) Bhandari
November 25, 2020 -
Investigating soil moisture dynamics for improved applications of radar satellites in agricultural water management
CD (Coleen) Carranza MSc
November 23, 2020 -
Development and application of tests for microplastic detection in soil
FA (Fabio) Corradini
November 23, 2020 -
Accelerating the transition towards sustainable pest control in agriculture - introducing the SPRINT project
October 22, 2020 - 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
October 16, 2020 - Pesticides should remain where they were applied. However, environmental researchers have found - through measurements over the past year and a half -... -
SPRINT project launched
September 15, 2020 - 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
February 3, 2020 - 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?
November 15, 2018 - 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
November 9, 2018 - 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
October 25, 2018 - On October 25th, a few months after his retirement, Joop Kroes received his PhD degree on his research into upward groundwater flows, an important...