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  • More uncontrollable wildfires with larger impact on society

    An increased part of the Netherlands will face more wildfires in the future. "Wildfires are more often becoming intense fires that cannot be...

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  • Manatees equipped with cameras for seagrass research

    Animal keepers at Royal Burgers' Zoo are temporarily equipping Caribbean manatees with camera-tag technology as part of international scientific...

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  • Bogs reveal millennia-old stories about violence and religion

    Once, large parts of Europe were covered with peatlands. Only a fraction of those remain today. The bogs left are mostly part of protected nature...

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  • Lammert Kooistra appointed personal professor of Remote Sensing

    The Executive Board has appointed Lammert Kooistra as personal professor of Remote Sensing at Wageningen University & Research's Laboratory of...

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  • Martine van der Ploeg appointed professor Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management

    The Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research has appointed Prof. Martine van der Ploeg as chair and professor of the Hydrology and...

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