Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Labelling format An Implementing Regulation on the format of F-gas labels that are required on F-gas containers as well as on certain products and equipment with F-gases. These new rules will apply from 1 January 2025. Until then, the labelling requirement in Article 12 in the previous F-gas Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 and the format […]

This blog post is also available in German here. Dominik Poniatowski and colleagues describe how they evaluated the environmental drivers of species richness and biomass of grasshoppers in grasslands, comparing this between nature reserves and intensively-used agriculture landscape. Grassland exhibiting low land-use intensity is considered a hotspot of biodiversity in Central Europe. However, particularly since […]

June to August 2024 was the warmest summer on record, exceeding the previous record set in 2023, and Europe faced multiple climate extremes. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions remains an utmost priority, but even if we stay below 1.5°C globally, the EU is warming at twice the global average, bringing us to a physical climate reality […]

In this new series, The Applied Ecologist is amplifying the staff and student voices from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability to showcase their diverse, interdisciplinary body of work and to help inspire the next generation. In this final post of the series, we share below Walter’s speech as he transitioned to […]

Sean J Sharp (@seancologie, Linkedin), from University of Maryland, discusses his article: Large grazers suppress a foundational plant and reduce soil carbon concentration in eastern US saltmarshes Wild horses grazing on Cumberland Island, Georgia, USA. Photo by Kate Davidson. Grazing has been a common practice in temperate salt marshes for millennia. In European saltmarshes, the […]

(Seychelles News Agency) – Conservation efforts on Platte Island in Seychelles have been significantly bolstered with the recent opening of a new conservation centre managed by the Island Conservation Society (ICS).     According to a press communique from ICS, less than a year after the Waldorf Astoria Hotel of the Hilton Group opened on the island, […]

The image shows a stark contrast between renewable and non-renewable energy sources. The image depicts a field with a lone wind turbine standing tall in the foreground, while in the distance, smoke billows from a power plant, symbolizing traditional energy production. The scene is set against a cloudy sky, with the sun casting a soft […]

Callie Cho and Robin Naidoo talk us through how, using observed animal movements rather than conventional resistance surface models, a connectivity conservation blueprint for African elephants in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area (KAZA) in southern Africa was produced. This is explored further in the new research article. A key aspect of effective conservation management is […]

Erica Rievrs Borges, Institut de recherche pour le développement in France, discusses her article: Evolutionary diversity impacts tropical forest biomass and productivity through disturbance-mediated ecological pathways in both English and French. Understanding Biodiversity and Biomass We know that tropical forests are incredibly important, partly because they account for around half of global forest aboveground carbon […]

(Seychelles News Agency) – A revised protocol has been designed to effectively manage the population of yellow crazy ants in the Vallee de Mai and Fond Peper on Praslin, according to an official of the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF). Jessica Constance, the Vallee de Mai science coordinator, told SNA, “The previous protocol was designed when […]