Knowledge bank: environment

The most recent examples of findings from SLU's environmental monitoring and assessment.

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2013-04-22 - Soothing forests cure burn-out patients
Open pine woods and heaths or woodland fringes have a soothing effect, and can help people to recover from stress-related conditions.

2013-04-19 - Planning cities for playfulness
Increasing numbers of the world's children grow up in cities. Outdoor urban environments are therefore of growing importance for children's day-to-day mobility.

2013-04-18 - Environmental toxins know no boundaries
After use on crops, pesticides have long moved freely between countries, carried by wind and water. This leakage is a major environmental problem. Attempts are being made to solve it by way of international...

2013-04-18 - Getting a grip on greenhouse gases
The exchange of greenhouse gases between the earth's surface in Europe and the atmosphere has hitherto been monitored in separate projects, but a European network of monitoring stations is starting to...

2013-04-17 - Restoring forests little by little
"Caring for the environment is a way of restoring our forests while we use them," explains Lena Gustafsson, Professor of Nature Conservation Biology.

2013-04-17 - Putting children on the map
A number of Swedish municipalities are using a method called “Children's maps in GIS” to find out how children feel about and use their outdoor environment.

2013-04-12 - Growing algae for fuel and feed
Algae grown in sewage and flue gases can be transformed to biogas, bioethanol, biodiesel, fertiliser or fish and animal feed.

2012-03-07 - Clever fishing part of the solution
Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea is a growing problem. The emission of nutrients to the sea has to be reduced, but better management of fisheries is also required. To implement ecosystem-based management...

2012-03-07 - We are all Peepoople
One billion of the world’s population does not have a toilet. A few more billions use primitive dry toilets and risk infections. This is the starting point for Peepoo, a bag which turns the notion of what...

2012-01-13 - A warmer climate gives more carbon in forest soils
Temperature, precipitation and growing season length have a large impact on how quickly organic materials decompose.

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