Author: Helen Massy-Beresford

German scientist Dr Nicole Biebow is keenly aware of how important it is to research and protect the Earth’s increasingly fragile polar regions. The two poles are warming faster than any other area on the planet and are losing ice through increased melting. The Arctic, for example, is warming three times as fast as the […]

When the makeover of Piazza del Popol Giost is completed this December, residents of Reggio Emilia will find themselves strolling through a tree-lined, pedestrianised square that until recently was just a car park.  The overhaul of the 1 300m2 piazza is part of the northern Italian city’s broader sustainable urban mobility planning and was supported by […]

Dealing with cancer in children is hard enough. Knowing that there are huge disparities in survival rates between higher- and lower-income countries in Europe makes it even worse. But EU-funded researchers are working to address this. Dr Jelena Rascon, a paediatric cancer specialist at the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos (VULSK) in Lithuania, places great importance […]