News archive 2016
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New book: Food Production and Nature Conservation - conflicts and solutions
December 16, 2016 - Today a new book is published by Resource Ecology professor Herbert Prins and colleagues on the relationship between food production and nature... -
Eight million for climate, water and soil
December 14, 2016 - The collaboration between the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment and a consortium of water boards, universities and knowledge institutions was... -
Vegetables from Mars awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science
November 16, 2016 - Mars soil researcher Wieger Wamelink has been awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science. He was awarded the prize during the... -
Collaboration key to succes for clusters
November 10, 2016 - Around 400 professionals, academics and policymakers from all over the world are at the three-day TCI Global Conference 2016 in Eindhoven to discuss... -
Adaptive circular cities
September 29, 2016 - Cities should be resilient against climate change (adaptive) and utilise more useable residual materials as raw materials (circular). Wageningen... -
Natura 2000 network of crucial importance for many European species
August 29, 2016 - In 2015 the European Commission published the report The State of Nature in the European Union - giving the status of and trends for habitat types and... -
Dutch forest profits by summer rains (in Dutch)
August 15, 2016 - Hoewel niet iedereen blij is met de grote hoeveelheden regen deze zomer, blijkt dat dit toch heel goed is voor het Nederlandse bos. Uit continue... -
GODAN Action - Enabling practical engagement with open data in agriculture and nutrition
August 4, 2016 - As the world’s population grows, global demand for food is predicted to nearly double. The number of people at risk of hunger in the developing... -
ISRIC releases upgraded SoilGrids system: up to two times improved accuracy of predictions
July 28, 2016 - ISRIC – World Soil Information has just released a major update of its global predictions of soil properties and classes, now available at a... -
The Martian becomes reality: at least four crops grown on simulated Mars soil are edible
July 26, 2016 - Scientists of Wageningen University & Research are working on growing crops on Mars and moon soil simulants. Just like the real Martian and moon...
News 2015 and older
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Rooted cities: the future of cities depends on their landscape history
November 5, 2015 - The capital cities of Europe are vulnerable. They are vulnerable because of flooding and heat, but there is also the question of supplies of food,... -
Possibilities to work with the city of Curitiba, Brazil
October 20, 2015 - By signing a Memorandum of Understanding Wageningen UR offers students and researchers a new possibility to work in an international environment on... -
Finance green projects with the Green Finance Academy
October 9, 2015 - Banks and companies are increasingly showing their interest in financing green or development projects. To tap into this new source of investment, the... -
The capability of remote sensing of annual terrestrial gross primary productivity
April 25, 2014 - Robust and repeatable characterization of spatiotemporal variability in carbon budgets is critically important and the carbon cycle science community... -
Floods in Bangladesh; support from Wageningen UR highlighted in Nature
April 17, 2014 - Bangladesh is a dynamic delta, in which fighting poverty and economic development go hand in hand with fighting population pressure and climate... -
IPCC: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
April 1, 2014 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations (UN). It reviews and assesses the... -
Peat experts help the Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) to preserve peatlands and to reduce its carbon emissions
March 1, 2014 - A team of peat experts headed by Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) has been appointed by APP to work with the company as it implements... -
Improved utilisation of forests to meet demand for wood
January 13, 2014 - Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation – especially in privately owned forests – falls short... -
Preventing and remediating degradation of soils in Europe through land care
November 28, 2013 - The European Commission recently granted Wageningen University and partners a 11 million euro international research project focusing on preventing... -
Dutch and Indonesian research institutes upgrade collaboration on water, weather and climate
November 25, 2013 - Indonesia has water management problems that include land subsidence, groundwater extraction, flooding and drought. Research institutes in the...