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Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing nets floating around at sea and washing up on beaches in the Arctic and North-East Atlantic Ocean regions are a persistent problem. Based on the findings of a new study by Wageningen…

Turf producers use underground nets to support grass growth. Removing the nets from fully grown turf is difficult, so the material often remains in the soil, causing pollution. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research and their industrial…

A comprehensive toolkit was recently developed that allows regions to create a regional strategy for the development of the bio-economy step by step. The toolkit was developed in the EU project POWER4BIO, in which Wageningen Food &…

The proof-of-concept study, published in the journal PeerJ, opens up potential for new ecological, health and forensic applications of environmental DNA (eDNA), which to-date has mainly been used to survey aquatic environments.Living…

While France has experienced many of the challenges experienced by other advanced industrial democracies in the face of globalisation, technology and mass immigration, there have been specific difficulties in the French context.The book…

Based on extensive archival research and hundreds of interviews, the book reveals that the prisoners’ involvement and consent to the Good Friday Agreement that was critical to ending the decades-long conflict.Actively pursuing a variety…

The University of Southampton’s particularly strong research partnerships, public engagement and achievements in entrepreneurial activities have been recognised in the results of the first-ever Knowledge Exchange Framework…

The BK21 Four Project (Global Leader Education Center of Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development, Director: Jongwook Bae) of Department of Chemical Engineering conducted the “6th SKKU-HUST Bilateral Graduate Student Workshop and…

Students who applied to Rice University for the fall 2021 academic year have now received the news they’ve been waiting for — the notification telling them whether they’ve been accepted for admission.Rice received a record number of…

Eight Rice graduate programs rank among the country’s top 25 in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”The George R. Brown School of Engineering, which ranks No. 29 nationally (up from No. 33 last…