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Call for action for supporting forest restoration around the globe
- Forest scientists are calling for a ‘decade of global action’ to restore forests across the planet. This is one of the messages in a... -
COP27: Nature-positive food systems: a climate change safety net
- Climate change is dramatically reducing the biodiversity and functioning of our ecosystems. At the same time, this biodiversity loss reduces the... -
Sea turtles are returning, what are the effects on ecosystem functioning?
- Sea turtles have been overharvested in the past, resulting in their endangered population status. But since two decades, their populations have... -
dr. ir. Erik van den Berg: over 35 years of experiments and modelling fate of pesticides in air, soil and groundwater
- dr. ir. Erik van den Berg worked more than 35 years at Wageningen Environmental Research and its predecessors on fate of pesticides in the... -
WUR researchers about alarming WWF report: "We must act now"
- The Living Planet Report published by WWF on 13 October shows well-documented evidence that humanity has far exceeded our planet's safe limits. The... -
Follow the crane migration live with the "Crane Radar"
- Birdwatchers beware! The next few weeks are all about crane migration. When the wind is just right, sometimes thousands of "cranes" fly over... -
The entire planet’s ecosystems classified for the first time
- Wageningen University & Research has been part of a global cross-disciplinary process to develop the first comprehensive classification of the... -
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation
- Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach, and to be effective measures must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture,... -
Five questions about wildfires
- They hit the headlines almost daily in the summer: major wildfires that reduce thousands of hectares to ashes. They seem to be occurring ever more... -
High plant diversity often found in smallest of areas
- Although it sounds weird, it is true: the steppes of Eastern Europe are home to a similar number of plant species as the regions of the Amazon...