In the village of Suonenjoki, the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) stands surrounded by a forest of pine trees. The...

Strolling through a forest, you may notice that the air is filled with sound. Birds sing, insects and small mammals rustle through...

What if schools could do more than teach sustainability? What if they could test it, measure it and experience it...

Soils feed us, filter our water and support most of the food chain on Earth. But they are also among...

In Ranerou, north-east Senegal, locals and environmental experts are working side by side to improve livelihoods and farming conditions, and...

Visitors to Utrecht’s Wilhelmina Park in the summer of 2023 may have come across an unusual sight: volunteers on stationary...

Many people expect a raging wildfire to leave a blackened, lifeless landscape in its wake. But after a blaze swept...

From his bedroom desk in the Belgian town of Dendermonde, Gert Everaert used to watch the river Scheldt flow past....

When a bee leaves the nest, it already has its own version of a GPS in its head. By analysing...

Climate change is already reshaping where and how people live, from farming villages to coastal towns. Professor François Gemenne, one...

Outside the mountain town of Sabiñánigo in northern Spain, an abandoned chemical factory stands on land still scarred by decades...

When Professor Alicja Krzemień set out to turn one of Poland’s largest coal-mining waste heaps into a thriving meadow, she...

In the hills above Matagalpa, Nicaragua, farmer Juan Pablo Castro has been growing coffee for 25 years. His two-hectare farm, dotted...

From fancy oat milk lattes to organically grown produce at the local market, organic food has moved from niche to...

On the outskirts of Lisbon, an abandoned industrial site has been given a new lease of life as a state-of-the-art...

Michalis Genitsariotis, a former salesman turned olive grower from the northern Greek region of Halkidiki, is constantly learning in his...

Asier Larrañaga Ochoa de Eguileor, a wildfire analyst at the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service, experienced the Solsonès wildfire in...

New media artist Helena Nikonole is taking the art of sound to an unusual place – a city-based hydroponic plant...

The rolling hills of Umbria present an idyllic view of some of Italy’s finest and oldest olive groves. Now these...

On Marianne Mulhall’s organic dairy farm in southeast Ireland, the winter wheat crop is looking better than usual. By spring,...

The Făgăraș Mountains in southern Romania are home to one of Europe’s few remaining primary old-growth forests.  These forests are...

With nearly 30 years of experience in human nutrition research and teaching, Professor Kevin Cashman has dished out his fair...

When crop scientist Michael Frei grew up in Germany in the 1980s, television screens were filled with scenes of poverty,...

Red, white, or rosé, sparkling or still, dry or fruity, wine is deeply embedded in European culture. But so are...

In 1998, in a small park in Zurich, Switzerland, one bug woke up in a new world. The bricks on...

In Catalonia there are 7.7 million residents and approximately 7.9 million pigs. That’s over one pig per person.  Large-scale pig...

On the plains of Crau in southern France, EU-funded researchers are pioneering a new approach to water conservation that allows...

With an electronic ‘ping’, Professor Dirk de Graaf gets an alert on his smartphone. It’s a message from a beehive...

Above the Arctic Circle in Finland’s municipality of Inari, the largest and most sparsely populated region of Finnish Lapland, leading sources...

For avocado farmers in Peru, it appears to be a boom time. Their production has increased sixfold over the past...

Supermarkets across Europe offer such regular and wide selections of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries – even in the grip of...

In an old-growth forest in Slovakia, dozens of sensors are placed in the soil, tree trunks and air. The devices...

For avocado farmers in Peru, it appears to be a boom time. Their production has increased sixfold over the past...

Europeans are increasingly keen to eat food that is both healthy for them and gentle on the environment. Retail sales...

German farmers in the Lower Oder Valley National Park on the eastern border with Poland faced a dilemma: what to...

In late October, climate change suddenly felt very real in northern Italy. A severe storm brought heavy rainfall to the...

In late October, climate change suddenly felt very real in northern Italy. A severe storm brought heavy rainfall to the...

Callie Seaman was 16 when she started smoking cannabis to control her epilepsy. The seizures that had started two years...

The Ornithopter in the sci-fi blockbuster film Dune resembles a helicopter crossed with a dragonfly. It’s no wonder why. Ever...

Think of wildlife tracking and what probably comes to mind are documentaries following the majestic movements of elephants through the...