European Democracy Shield and EU Strategy for Civil Society pave the way for stronger and more resilient democracies

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 13, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The Commission has presented today the European Democracy Shield, setting out a series of concrete measures to empower, protect, and promote strong and resilient democracies across the EU. An open civic space is at the core of our democracies, and this is why the...

Europe’s plastics industry risks ‘collapsing’ under broken market economics

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

More than 110 organisations within Europe’s plastics value chain have warned EU policymakers that the continent’s recycling industry is failing to cope with persistent challenges including the widening gap between virgin and recycled plastic prices. The organisations’...

Climate Change Could Result in Contaminant Spread in the High Arctic, McGill Study Finds

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface contaminants to spread from more than 2,500 contaminated sites associated with industrial and military sites across the region. The pathways are...

Switzerland joins Horizon Europe and other key EU research and innovation programmes

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 12, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The European Union and Switzerland have signed the agreement on Switzerland’s participation in Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, and the Euratom Research & Training (R&T) programme. The agreement places Swiss researchers and organisations on the same...

Fishes, Young and Old, Are Shrinking in Michigan’s Inland Lakes

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Climate change is changing the size of fishes in Michigan’s inland lakes, leaving the young and old of many species more vulnerable to predation. A new study led by the University of Michigan shows that changes in climate are also changing the size of fishes in...

Phasing out a third of coal power plants in Asia can reduce around 1 billion tonnes of CO2 each year

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 11, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Phasing out about a third of pollutive coal power plants in over a dozen Asian countries through a novel form of carbon credits can reduce emissions by around one billion tonnes annually, an initiative led by Singapore’s central bank has found. This is equivalent to...