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May 02, 2017
On April 26, 2017 Christine Farcy has been elected as...
Christine Farcy, member of the board of the European Forest Institute (EFI) since September 2015, has been elected vice-chair of the board in Dublin on April 25 2017. EFI is an international organisation with 26 European member States and 115 associated Member organizations in 36 countries. EFI...
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April 13, 2017
The carbon cycle reveals its secrets
Today, thanks to the work of Kristof Van Oost’s team at the UCL Earth and Life Institute, we have a better understanding of the carbon cycle. Specifically, they have discovered a process that offsets carbon emissions caused by deforestation.
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April 03, 2017
Lifewatch, the new European big data infrastructure for...
The European Commission granted the legal status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) to the e-Science and Technology European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch). The research group of geomatics from the Earth and Life Institute, in partnership...
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March 27, 2017
Simple Rule Accurately Predicts when Ice Age Ends
Takahito Mitsui and Michel Crucifix, from the Earth and Life Institute, contributed to an article recently published in the scientific journal « Nature », in which provide a set of rules that predict when, during the last 2.6 million years, Earth’s climate warmed out of ice ages....
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March 24, 2017
SEB GOTHENBURG 2017
Scientific Smörgåsbord – Dip into SEB’s Annual Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden from 3 – 6 July 2017 at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre.
Renowned for creating chemistry through ideas, people and scientific theories, SEB’s Annual Meeting will challenge your mind and increase your...
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