After severe and prolonged droughts that affected northern Africa during the last 6 years and Europe for over 2 years, drought conditions are back again in large parts of Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean region, eastern Europe and the Baltic countries. Recent above-average temperatures...

Innovation and entrepreneurship can play a central role in revitalizing rural areas and turning them into places of opportunity. This report, part of the Startup Village Forum initiative's research activities, explores four cases of rural villages or groups of villages on their journey toward...

Microplastics are ubiquitous and have been found nearly everywhere in the environment as well as in food. However, the properties, distribution and effects of microplastics are currently only partially understood, meaning that many different research questions still need to be answered. For...

Biodiversity loss is recognised as one of the top risks that humanity is facing. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 highlights the need to better integrate biodiversity considerations into decision-making, and commits to the development of methods to measure the environmental footprint of...

When soils are used for construction, all their ecosystem services are irreversibly lost. The European Commission has implemented various policies to reduce the loss of soils due to sealing, and this objective is integrated into the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities. In the delegated acts,...

This document introduces proposed accelerated stress testing (AST) protocols for assessing the performance degradation of water electrolyser (WE) stacks. These stacks play a crucial role in generating clean hydrogen in bulk amounts through the electrolysis of water, primarily using electricity...

ERM-CZ130 is a tunnel dust PM10-like matrix material certified for the mass fraction of arsenic, cadmium, nickel, lead and selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) - benzo[a]anthracene (B[a]A), benzo[b]fluoranthene (B[b]F), benzo[j]fluoranthene (B[j]F), benzo[k]fluoranthene (B[k]F),...

This document presents a description of the data used and the processing carried out to derive global cropland and rangeland area fraction images at 500 m utilized by the JRC early warning system ASAP (Anomaly hotspot of Agricultural Production,...