The Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) has recently detected high PFAS levels in 42 out of 46 drinking water samples collected from households across Germany. They now call for a comprehensive PFAS restriction and consistent application of the polluter pays principle to protect drinking water.
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In an effort to align EU Policy with Scientific Evidence, over 2000 scientists signed an open letter to EU heads of state and government ahead of the European Council on 23 October this week, reminding the importance of Climate Neutrality.
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A new extensive review article assessing the state of global chemical pollution highlights the challenges for global chemical assessment, regulation and management systems.
The SETAC 13th Young Environmental Scientists (YES) meeting took place from the 11th to the 14th of August in York, United Kingdom. Katharina Wifling and I, Verónica Rodriguez, attended the conference to present our research. Katharina presented a poster based on her RPC, while I presented a poster on my master’s thesis.
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Pesticides on the peaks: Alpine study made the Top 25 of 2024 in Communications Earth & Environment.
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Modern agro-ecosystems are extensively contaminated with pesticides, but the effects of these chemicals on insect biodiversity are poorly understood. Jan Erik Sedelmeir reports in this blog post about a new study, carried out at the Department of Applied Entomology at the University of Hohenheim under the direction of Georg Petschenka.
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France has passed a new law that will ban PFAS in several products including clothing and cosmetics.
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In this second part of the ‘Highlights of 2024’, we recap the projects and fieldwork conducted by the research teams at Uni Landau this year.
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In the first part of the ‘Highlights of 2024’, we give our readers a recap of the scientific publications we covered this year.
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In the first part of the ‘Highlights of 2023’ series, we give our readers a glance of 3 most visited posts about scientific publications in this year.
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