The most significant Finnish wood-based innovations of the moment participated in the Uusi puu – New Wood 2021 competition. The […] The post Invitation: Uusi puu – New Wood 2021 Award Ceremony and Jury Panel Discussion on April 29th, 2021 appeared first on Finnish Forest Association....
The kelp forests of the oceans are a habitat for a wide range of marine species, rivaling even the great tropical forests for sheer richness of biodiversity, according to scientists from the KELPER project, which studies these marine algae ecosystems. The kelp species, or marine algae, that make up ...
Funds offered to persuade Jair Bolsonaro’s ruinous government to stop deforestation are meant well, but badly misjudgedMarina Silva and Rubens Ricupero are former Brazilian environment ministersAs a candidate, Joe Biden built up the world’s hopes when he committed the US to rejoining the Paris a...
By Simone Lovera The US is back. Back in the Paris Agreement, and back to faithfully promoting the interests of destructive industries and their allies at the global level under the guise of environmentalism. On Earth Day – a day that is increasingly co-opted by corporations – President Biden is...
This webinar was organised on 15 April 2021. Public procurement can serve as a powerful tool to address the three pillars of Sustainable Development, and to speed up the market uptake of more sustainable products and services. Local governments and public institutions have major purchasing power a...
Address by John W.H. Denton AO, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, at the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (20-21 April 2021), on the theme “promoting circular economy and sustainable use of natural resources in the UNECE region”. The C...
Address by Konstantinos Aravossis ,Secretary-General for Natural Environment & Water, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Greece, at the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (20-21 April 2021), on the theme “promoting circular economy and sustainable use of natu...
Address by Nerissa Cook, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State, USA, at the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (20-21 April 2021), on the theme “promoting circular economy and sustainable use of natural ...
Abstract In grape berries (Vitis vinifera L.), sesquiterpenes are mainly accumulated as hydrocarbons in the epicuticular wax layer of grapes, whereas monoterpenes, which are predominantly present as alcohols, are glycosylated and are stored as glycosides in the vacuoles of grape ...
Abstract The study was aimed at the evaluation of the usefulness of textures of the outer surface from the images of apple skin and flesh for discrimination of different cultivars. The texture parameters were calculated from color channels: R, G, B, L, a, b, U, V, H, S, I, X, Y, ...
Abstract Phenolic compounds in apples 17 cultivars (Malus domestica Borkh.) and 3 wild forms (Malus sp.) were analyzed to study the impact of genetic background, growth site, and fruit bagging. The impact of altitude was studied in nine cultivars by analyzing fruits collected fro...
Abstract Key message The size of the structural components of the root–pit–mound complex was crucial for high moss species richness. Root plates, pits, and mo...