Researchers have examined which agroforestry residues are available for the development of bio-based materials.

New study shows connections between global environmental degradation and tax havens published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. On average 68% of all investigated foreign capital to sectors associated with deforestation of the Amazon rainforest was transferred through tax havens. 70% of the known fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing are, or have been, registered in tax havens. Loss of tax revenue caused by tax havens should be considered as indirect subsidies to economic activities with detrimental environmental consequences.

This research project aims to develop a specific IT tool contributing to the implementation of a strategic approach to assess and minimize the probable environmental and health risks arising from the potential use of carbon-based nanomaterials (CBNs) in many applications ranging from engineering to medicine and biology whilst maintaining the highest quality of the composite product coupled with the notion of designing environmentally friendly products.

Growing large crystals (>0.1mm3) of biological macromolecules that are suitable for neutron crystallography is not an easy task. The solution to this problem holds the key to overcoming the single biggest difficulty that limits the technique, and would have a major impact on the range of biological problems that could be addressed using neutron protein crystallography. What if there was a way to arrange many microcrystals so that they behave as if they were a large crystal?