In this post, Sebastian Stehle informs about their recent paper on shortcomings and failures of the regulatory EU pesticide risk assessment procedures. Continue reading
EU – European Union or Environment Unprotected?
Tag Archives: environmental risk assessment
Joint PhD position at Wageningen and Namur University
Wageningen University and the Université de Namur offer a joint PhD position dealing with the development of ecological scenarios and models for use in chemical risk assessment. Continue reading
Two positions at the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) offers two positions dealing inter alia with the fate of and exposure towards biocides. Continue reading
Herbicides and plant communities – field studies instead of single plant pot experiments in new risk assessment approaches
In this post, Carsten Brühl informs about their recent paper on the risk posed by herbicides to non-target plants. Continue reading
You are what you eat!
In this post, we talk about our recently published paper “The relative importance of diet-related and waterborne effects of copper for a leaf-shredding invertebrate”. Continue reading
Poster on wild bee ring test participation presented at SETAC Europe Barcelona 2015
In this post, Carsten Brühl provides a poster on a wild bee ring test his group participated in. Continue reading
Silent Water
In this post, Sebastian Stehle informs about their recently published paper “Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale”.
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EU fungicide risk assessment not sufficiently protective for key drivers in leaf litter breakdown
In this post, we talk about two recently published papers dealing with the effects of fungicides on aquatic fungi that are key drivers in ecosystem functioning. Continue reading