The less intensively you till the soil, the better the soil can function. Such as not ploughing as often or using more ...

After a winter that was slightly drier than usual, the extremely dry spring is putting the Dutch water system under pressure.

Many animal species become smaller or larger in recent decades, with climate change often mentioned as a cause. Red knots, shorebirds travelling ten thousand kilometers every year between breeding ...

16-APR-2025 - The results of recent research reveal both the vulnerability and the surprising resilience of tropical seagrass, despite the growing threats posed by climate change. Led by Fee Smulders ...

08-SEP-2018 - In conventional farming most attention goes out to quality of planting material, soil quality, fertilisation, weed control and similar aspects. Surprisingly little attention is being ...

12-JUN-2018 - Scientists can predict which storks will migrate to Africa in autumn and which will remain in Europe. For little Louis, it is the most exciting day of his life: just six or seven weeks ...

03-JUL-2018 - Our ecological knowledge used to end where the soil begins. That's slowly changing, but there are still some soil creatures we know very little about. Protists, for example. These tiny, ...

30-NOV-2017 - Climate change discussions on social media are very influential. A new study in BioScience shows that when it comes to iconic topics such as polar bears and retreating sea ice, climate ...

28-NOV-2017 - Ever wonder what makes soil, soil? And could soil from the Amazon rainforest really be the same as soil from your garden? Researchers from the University of Manchester and the ...

19-JUL-2018 - As Arctic temperatures continue to rise, barnacle geese are increasingly at risk of arriving in their breeding areas too late. The good news is that they can speed up their 3,000 ...