News about climate change
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06 July 2023
New institute to develop 'smart breeding' method for more resilient and climate-adaptive agriculture
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will contribute 15 million euros to the CropXR research programme into 'smart breeding' of... -
01 June 2023
A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying safe and just Earth System Boundaries
- Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature... -
15 September 2022
Biodiversity loss and climate change, two mutually reinforcing crises
- Changes in agriculture and our food system are crucial in combatting climate change and biodiversity loss. That is the topic of the third Mansholt... -
01 June 2022
Transform decision-making to tackle climate and biodiversity crises together
- A new study published today in the scientific journal BioScience argues that to effectively and equitable address the interactions between... -
12 May 2022
How does forest restoration affect water cycles?
- Tree restoration is an effective way to store atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. Many initiatives exist to increase global tree cover.... -
01 April 2022
All the world’s soils in one app - iSQAPER (SLM)
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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... -
31 March 2021
Worldwide forest carbon sources and sinks mapped in unprecedented detail
- A new interactive map of carbon sources and sinks from forests around the world confirm that forests take up twice as much carbon as they release. In...