ESF, VR, FORMAS sign MOU to promote Global Environmental Change Research

The European Science Foundation (ESF), the Swedish Research Council (VR), and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) have agreed to join forces to promote Global Change Research through an international, interdisciplinary conference series....

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Unmasking the methane eaters

Soil bacteria that consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane could be important in fighting climate change. A team of European scientists is beginning to understand how communities of them work together in real soils. Methane is a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. It is...

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Making more hay – what farmers can learn from ecology

Farmers all over Europe could get higher yields and fewer weeds in their intensive grasslands, if they planted more species. A new European study has shown that this basic ecological pattern holds true for planted pastures. It is now well established in biodiversity science that when you lose...

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Nitrogen – the silent species eliminator

Nitrogen pollution from agriculture and fossil fuels is known to be seriously damaging grasslands in the UK. A new European study is starting to show that the effect is Europe-wide, confirming that current policies to protect ecosystems may need a re-think. When Carly Stevens finished her PhD in...

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Buying and selling habitats to help wildlife

Tradable permits are all the rage in environmental policy. They are already used internationally to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality. A group of economists and ecologists from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, are working together to find out whether such schemes could work for...

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European lead in reading past climates from ice cores

Climate change is a reality today, but how can we find out about the future dangers it poses? What we really need is a full record of the Earth’s climate for several hundred thousand years, complete with samples of air from different epochs that can be taken to the lab for analysis. Incredibly,...

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Podcast: The Chair of the EuroDYNA Scientific Committee speaks about his achievements and his involvement

Coling Logie, Chair of the EuroDYNA Scientific Committee, speaks about scientific achievements through the EUROCORES Programme EuroDYNA (Dynamic Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Function) and his personal experiences, at the ELSO Conference, Dresden, Germany in September.

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New Breakthroughs in Geological Dating Imminent

A breakthrough in geological dating can be expected within the next few years, combining existing methods to yield higher accuracy over longer time scales closer to the earth’s origin. This will bring great benefits not just for earth sciences, but also for other fields that rely on accurate dating...

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Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins

Biologists still have no clear idea how many active genes there are coding for proteins in humans and other organisms, even though for some species the genomes have been completely sequenced. This is because many of the genes and their protein products have only been predicted by computer...

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LESC’s Ceulemans among the most cited Plant Science authors in Europe

Professor Reinhart Ceulemans, the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Sciences and the head of Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology at the Universiteit Antwerpen, has been named one of the 30 most cited European authors in Plant Science during 1999-2005 by Lab Times. Professor Ceulemans also...

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