by valeria | Jan 22, 2020 | News
Traffic counts are essential as a basis for solutions to take action against air pollution. Unfortunately counting is currently expensive, limited in time, and rarely records all forms of transport (cars, heavy vehicles, public transport, cyclists and pedestrians)....
by valeria | Nov 20, 2019 | News
Research on initiatives in Fukushima raise globally relevant questions for citizen science practice Citizen science projects about pollution often emerge in areas of contention between citizens and institutional or governmental actors: take vehicle emissions and urban...
by valeria | Nov 15, 2019 | News
In the concluding chapter of the book “Citizen science”, Bonn and colleagues argue that citizen science can lead to advances in science, policy, and society. ACTION partners T6 Ecosystems and DRIFT are building on these insights to investigate the ways in which...
by valeria | Nov 13, 2019 | News
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Honeybees are essential for the pollination of about one third of the food we eat, including fruit, vegetables, oils, seeds and nuts but, sadly, global bee populations have been decreasing rapidly in the past decade for unknown...
by valeria | Nov 7, 2019 | News
Many butterfly species are threatened in the Netherlands, especially species from nutrient poor sandy areas are doing poorly. This is due to a large part a result of habitat loss and nitrogen deposition. The areas where they occur have become smaller and smaller, and...
by valeria | Nov 4, 2019 | News
Agriculture, industry and traffic cause emissions of reactive nitrogen, NH4 for agriculture and NOx in industry and traffic. This also comes down as deposition in nature reserves. As nitrogen is a plant nutrient this changes the vegetation but it also causes...
