News about climate change
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07 March 2022
African forest carbon loss hotspots monitored at high speed
- The success of international commitments to stop tropical deforestation by 2030, made by the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land... -
04 March 2022
Ecologically sustainable sand extraction in the North Sea
- To protect the Dutch coast from rising sea levels, the coastline is strengthened and widened with sand. This is urgently needed, but also has negative... -
20 January 2022
Trees shrink during heatwaves
- While people tend to escape the sun during hot summers under the tree canopy in parks and forests, trees are fully exposed. They have to fight the... -
17 January 2022
Fish stocks fluctuate with seawater temperature
- Year-to-year fluctuations in seawater temperature are partly responsible for the much slower ups and downs in the abundance of marine fish stocks.... -
05 November 2021
Climate pledges, if fulfilled, may prevent worst of global warming
- More than 100 countries have issued new commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. If these climate... -
27 October 2021
The Dutch have great confidence in water managers, but it is not self-evident
- Trust among the Dutch population in Rijkswaterstaat (national water management authority) and the waterboards is high, researchers of Wageningen... -
22 September 2021
Clearance for 50 million euro programme proposal Plant-XR
- A revolutionary method to make crops more resilient to climate change and other threats is one step closer to becoming reality. A team of universities... -
14 July 2021
Decline in carbon uptake Southeast Amazon
- The capacity of the Amazon rainforest to take up CO₂ from the atmosphere is declining. Repeated measurements of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and... -
10 May 2021
The Emerging Politics of Geoengineering
- As climate change accelerates and the world scrambles to meet its net-zero targets, geoengineering is receiving more attention in the media. The US... -
03 May 2021
Method for assessing progress on Paris climate goals
- Scientists propose a new method for assessing progress toward the Paris Agreement's climate goal - limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees above...