Scientists from 27 European research institutions point out that the “Food and Feed Safety simplification package” weakens key safeguards in the approval process.
Eight EU-funded research consortia warn that Europe risks a crisis if it fails to halt pollinator loss. Their solution: a roadmap to reverse wild pollinator decline and protect managed bees.
Longevity and availability of WildPosh-produced research, materials and guidelines are of utmost importance to ensure that results are taken up by its target audiences. While providing all results openly via its web-based project portal, the project recently added a layer to impact strategy by launching its outcomes collection in the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal. The collection serves as a repository for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners by offering research outputs, such as reports, protocols, methodologies, and research papers, along with links to project publications in other journals, will be published. RIO also allows for unconventional project results to be added to the collection, such as policy briefs, policy recommendations, factsheets, inventories, case studies and data management plans.
Wild fauna and flora are facing variable and challenging environmental disturbances. One of the animal groups that is most impacted by these disturbances are pollinators, which face multiple threats, driven to a huge extent by the spread of anthropogenic chemicals, such as pesticides. In an effort to put biodiversity back on a path to recovery and preserve ecosystems and their services, the European Executive Agency (REA) has funded two new research projects under the Horizon Europe framework. Their shared ambition is to provide a better understanding of the exposure routes and toxicological and ecological impacts of chemical pollution on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems.
