News about climate change
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25 January 2018
Increase in extremes calls for intensive river monitoring
- Climate change and changes in land use mean that the past can tell us very little about future extreme discharges of rivers. A clever combined... -
17 January 2018
Forests, bioenergy and climate change mitigation: are the worries justified?
- Following the letter printed on the Crops for Energy website last week a group of 13 scientists, including prof. Gert-Jan Nabuurs of Wageningen... -
13 November 2017
Global CO2 emissions set to rise again after 3 stable years
- The world has not yet reached its peak in carbon dioxide emissions. By the end of 2017, global emissions from fossil fuels and industry are projected... -
26 October 2017
Will heat make life impossible in the Indus-Ganges plain?
- If global warming continues at this rate, vast parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will become unlivable by extremely high temperatures at the end... -
25 October 2017
Badlands and FACSIMILE projects hit the local news
- SGL researchers in the local news
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10 October 2017
Rethinking water scarcity: quality matters
- Current assessments of water scarcity primarily focus on water quantity. But as water quality issues are prevalent worldwide, we need to rethink the... -
28 September 2017
Dokuchaev Award for Prof. Johan Bouma
- Emeritus Professor Soil Science Johan Bouma will be awarded the prestigious Dukachaev Award from the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS),.
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25 September 2017
'How climate leads to conflict... in science', blog by Ingrid Boas in NRC
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12 September 2017
A better global environment through globalisation
- Globalisation has mostly negative connotations with market forces and free trade as the driver of the economy and with major influence over policy and... -
05 September 2017
Finally political attention for heat stress
- Heat stress is a prominent topic which, according to the Cabinet, deserves serious attention in the decades to come. The State Opening of the Dutch...