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Dutch university and research institute specializing in agriculture, food, environmental, and life sciences research.
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Wageningen and Leiden researchers have grown the Netherlands' first rice on 0.6 hectares of peat to test whether a wet crop can stop the land sinking. Whether the swap helps the climate depends on how much methane the wet fields give off compared with grassland, and the team is still measuring that.
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Vattenfall's pilot with 16 thermal cameras on one Dutch offshore turbine flagged 22 possible bird collisions in a year, two of them confirmed. It shows offshore strikes can be counted directly, though one turbine without a reported miss rate cannot yet give a collision rate.
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Wageningen biomechanists found microscopic pillars on the rim of a cuttlefish sucker, then measured how hard dissected arms clung to plates of varying roughness and stiffness in a water tank. Plate stiffness is what moved the reported forces.
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Restoration projects buy European flat oysters from Ireland, Norway and hatcheries. Sophie Valk's genetic mapping says two of those routes carry costs no supplier quotes.
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A Science Advances study of 210 tropical forest mammals finds that traits driving losses over 130,000 years now track with survival. Trait-based analogy is a shakier proxy than it looks.
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