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Alarm in the Amazon
Science - 05 December 2019 10:17 - While nature conservationists try to stem human infiltration of the
rainforest, other NGOs and businesses are working on developing a
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Calling on the neighbours
Organisation - 05 December 2019 09:27 - Unilever’s new home is as good as ready. Tomorrow sees the house-warming for the most sustainable business premises in the world, which will be... 0
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Students on hunger strike for climate
Student - 21 November 2019 13:40 - Anni Schlüter (21) and Malik Dasoo (24) are on a hunger strike. ‘People are not taking the climate crisis seriously so it’s time for... 0
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In love with the food forest: Bachelor's student to plant trees for food in France
Student - 21 November 2019 10:54 - Rémi Feraut (23) saw his first food forest during a mini-internship in the first year of his BSc degree in Plant Sciences. Now he is going to... 0
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Tackling sleeping sickness with zebra fish: Video footage reveals a deadly parasite's strategy
Organisation - 21 November 2019 10:30 - High-speed cameras have revealed for the first time how parasites that cause sleeping sickness penetrate their host. This could help in the battle... 0
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Professor Rogier Schulte on his lighthouse farms: 'I'm looking for farms that are ready for 2050'
Organisation - 21 November 2019 10:20 - Rogier Schulte was appointed professor of Farming Systems Ecology over two years ago. He gives his inaugural lecture on lighthouse farms on 12... 0
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Cutting hedge technology
Organisation - 21 November 2019 10:02 - A robot that picks bell peppers? Seen it. One that collects eggs? Done it. But what about a robot that trims your hedge? Trimbot is its name, and WUR... 0
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Master's student Pepijn Heerkens Thijssen is looking for a kidney donor: 'Dialysis is such a drag'
Student - 07 November 2019 10:55 - When you meet him, Pepijn Heerkens Thijssen seems just like any other Wageningen student. He lives in a student house, likes to go out for a drink,... 0
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Deal with the causes of stress
Organisation - 07 November 2019 10:39 - During the Surf Your Stress week from 11 to 15 November, WUR students and staff can learn ways of dealing with stress. There will be workshops on time... 0
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What’s the state of play with bee mortality?
Science - 07 November 2019 10:25 - It looks as though the period of alarmingly high winter mortality in honeybees is over. And a long-term study by Wageningen and Leiden suggests there... 0