Wageningen University & Research

Offshore infrastructure decommissioning, just transitions, and the struggle for the right to the sea: Small-scale fishers’ perspectives from coastal Ghana

Offshore petroleum infrastructure decommissioning is usually framed as a technical and environmental process requiring technical expertise. Yet, offshore infrastructure decommissioning could have deleterious consequences on adjacent coastal communities and livelihoods. Drawing on...

A large-scale AI-assisted QA/QC analysis of microplastic data across human exposure pathways

Reliable exposure data is critical for determining the potential human health risks of microplastics. To date, however, exposure data are often difficult to compare and do not always meet quality criteria, limiting their suitability for risk assessment. This study aimed to provid...

Associations of food processing and dietary risk factors with colorectal cancer incidence in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: A cohort study

Background Ultra-processed foods (UPF) account for >50% of energy intake by US adults. UPF intake can include dietary components linked to lower colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, such as whole grain and dairy products, and others linked to higher CRC risk, such as processed meats, po...

Fractal Dimension of Shallow Cumulus Cloud Boundaries Beyond Bulk Fractal Scaling

Abstract Cloud boundaries reflect turbulent mixing and cloud–environment interactions, but their geometric complexity remains poorly quantified. Here, we investigate the complexity of shallow cumulus cloud edge using two fractal approaches: the bulk area–perimeter method and the...

Uncertainties in adaptation pathways planning: Insights from diverse international case studies

Adaptation Pathways are receiving increased attention as a method to navigate future climate risks under conditions of deep uncertainty. Despite their promise to uncertainty management, questions remain about how uncertainty is conceptualized and addressed in practice. While prev...

The triple-layered business model canvas as a tool for sustainable BSF farming: A case of smallholder farmers in Kenya

Smallholder farmers play an important role in providing food to the world, but they are at risk due to issues like climate change, soil erosion, and high feed costs. The livestock industry, especially poultry, pig, and fish farming, is seriously disadvantaged by Kenya's unsustain...

Tracking recent extremes and interannual variability of global fire emissions using a near-real-time extension to the Global Fire Emissions Database

Abstract. The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) is widely used to quantify spatiotemporal variability and long-term trends in burned area and fire emissions, supporting assessments of fire impacts on ecosystems and atmospheric composition. GFED has historically relied on obse...

Governing Solar Geoengineering at Planetary Scale: Pipe Dream or Possibility?

Solar geoengineering is being suggested by some scientists as a partial solution to the climate crisis. However, these hypothetical technologies to reflect parts of incoming sunlight back out into space pose significant governance challenges, due to their ecological risks, planet...

Assessing the spatio-temporal cumulative drought effects on two Mediterranean forest types in Central Chile

Droughts are long-lasting events that can drive persistent functional changes in ecosystems, particularly in drought-prone areas like Mediterranean forests. We integrated a phenology-based anomaly method, combining kernel density estimation (KDE) with cumulative sums (CUSUMs) to...

Beyond ‘diversity of values’: power, pluralism and transformative change in biodiversity conservation

The concept of value has, again, become a major bone of contention in biodiversity conservation. Responding to natural capital approaches that aimed to illuminate natures economic value, critics argued that this economic emphasis not only ignores but strengthens the root causes o...

MONKI: a three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulator for transfer of polarised light in planetary atmospheres

Abstract. Spectropolarimetry is a powerful tool for characterising planetary atmospheres and surfaces. For the design and operation of spectro(polari)metric instrumentation, numerically simulated signals of the measured radiation are essential. Here we present MONKI (Monte Carlo...

Innate immune response to Streptococcus suis infection: advances and future challenges

Abstract Streptococcus suis is a pathogenic bacterium primarily found in pigs, where it causes sudden death and meningitis, but it is also capable of causing septic shock and meningitis in humans, being the most important cause of adult bacterial meningitis in Southeast Asia. As...

Development of a PLA/PBAT/pomelo peel-based antibacterial and antioxidant multilayer film for fresh raspberry preservation

Globally, large amounts of fruit peel waste from food processing remain underutilized. Therefore, in this study, an active packaging layer was manufactured from discarded pomelo peels using a simple, one-step thermocompression process. This active packaging layer (PPF) was then f...

Macroevolutionary insights into the range limits of species and lineages

Abstract Understanding the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that determine the range limits of species is an important goal in biology. Much work has focused on understanding the range limits of populations and individual species, whereas the factors that determine the distributio...

Social environment predicts alarm calling in Eurasian magpies

Abstract Animals in dangerous situations often use alarm calls to warn others. Variation in this behaviour across different social settings can serve to answer long-standing questions about the evolution of costly cooperative actions, since warned conspecifics may yield kin-selec...

Simulating Methane (CH4) Transport Pathways from a Rice Crop Grown on a Degraded Fen Peat Soil using the Peatland-VU Model

Important notes for future model users that seek to simulate the Peatland-VU model The modelling data uploaded in the zipped folder called as "Swiss PeatVU Aug2026 outputs" contains the simulations conducted using the Peatland-VU model. These Peatland-VU simulations are for the s...

Aridity regulates scale-dependent effects of multiple resource additions on productivity stability in Eurasian grasslands

Increasing the supply of multiple limiting resources generally reduces biodiversity and community stability in grasslands. Aridity is known to modify biodiversity-stability relationships, yet it remains unclear whether the effects of multiple resource supply on biodiversity and s...

Enabling climate action: A nexus approach for delivering co-benefits across biodiversity, water, food, and health

Climate response options rarely affect biodiversity, water, food, and health in uniform ways. This comparative analysis examines why technically viable response options generate uneven cross-nexus outcomes, and how governance and justice conditions shape whether these outcomes be...

Consistent estimates of carbonyl sulfide and methane stratospheric lifetimes retrieved from AirCore profiles at different latitudes

Stratospheric loss is a major sink for both carbonyl sulfide (COS) and methane (CH 4 ), but their stratospheric lifetimes and sinks remain poorly constrained because high-resolution observations of their vertical distributions in the lower stratosphere are sparse. Here, we estima...

Unpacking enablers and disablers of transformation: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe as white spots on the global knowledge map

Calls for transformative change have become central to sustainability research and practice. However, most frameworks and empirical insights on how transformation occurs originate from Western Europe or the Global South. This uneven knowledge production leaves Central and Eastern...