European Space Agency boosts budget to catch up in space race

mennessä CrNet Oy | joulu 1, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The European Space Agency said Thursday it would increase its budget for the next three years to almost 22.1 billion euros ($25.6 billion). Ahead of an agency conference in the German city of Bremen, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher had expressed concern that...

Commission presents new Bioeconomy Strategy to drive green growth, competitiveness and resilience across Europe

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 28, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

On Thursday, the Commission adopted a new Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy, charting a way forward to build a clean, competitive and resilient European economy. By using renewable biological resources from land and sea and providing...

EU launches pollinator monitoring scheme to help restore biodiversity

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 27, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

The European Commission has published a legislative act setting up an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme with a view to helping EU member states reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030. Pollinators are known to provide crucial ecosystem services on which...

Mining Waste Used in Concrete

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 27, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Flinders University researchers are turning mining waste into a powerful tool for sustainable construction – proving that superior construction materials can be developed from unlikely sources. In a major building block that could help to reshape the future of...

Breakthrough Could Lead to Plants That Use Water More Efficiently

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 26, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Cornell researchers have discovered a previously unknown way plants regulate water that is so fundamental it may change plant biology textbooks – and open the door to breeding more drought-tolerant crops. Cornell researchers have discovered a previously unknown way...

Parliament sounds the alarm over Hungary’s deepening rule of law crisis

mennessä CrNet Oy | marras 26, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

Parliament has adopted its second interim report on Hungary’s persistent undermining of the rule of law and its continuous breaches of EU values. Adopted with 415 votes in favour, 193 votes against and 28 abstentions, Parliament’s report on the Article 7 procedure...