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Even after treatment, wastewater can carry contaminants into the environment. A study explores how substances such as antibiotics and psychoactive drugs build up in insects, finding that aquatic larvae and airborne adults take up measurable amounts.
More effective biodiversity monitoring is needed to understand and protect the long-term health of Europe’s forests. A study now estimates the extra sampling efforts needed to guide conservation management.
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
The key to balancing future food and fuel needs with ambitious EU targets to restore habitats and protect threatened species is good policy and integrated planning, with burdens shared across member states.
Researchers find that areas of an unmanaged calcareous grassland in Germany that have been rooted by wild boar have higher plant species richness and diversity, but over-rooting can occur.
The 2025 European Business and Nature Summit (EBNS) in Helsinki will bring together Europe's business and financial sectors with a common goal of fostering profitable and sustainable business practices that work in harmony with nature.
Natural disturbances created by fire, wind or insect outbreaks in plantations can increase habitat opportunities for declining bird species in central Europe.
Some species are invasive and economically costly in some areas, but conservation priorities in others. A study identifies 36 such species, finding them to be conservation priorities due to their threatened status or their distinctiveness.
A new report reveals how seven out of nine critical planetary boundaries that keep life on Earth stable and healthy have been crossed.
Artificial floating islands - often called ‘floating treatment wetlands’ are already known to improve water quality in ponds, lakes and rivers and help a range of aquatic wildlife.