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01 Welcome
02 Foreword
03 Contents
04 The Amazon forest: from absorbing to emitting carbon
05 Capturing clouds with cinema techniques
06 The weather app that forecasts the coming weeks
07 Solar farms can do so much more than generate energy
08 This is what Dutch cities will look like 100 years from now
09 Wanted: solution space for climate adaptation
10 Better forecasts for extreme weather
11 Finger on the climate pulse
12 Transparency is not a panacea for climate policy
13 Read more
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A better understanding of a changing climate

Climate change massively impacts humans and nature. We read about it in the media or experience it ourselves every single day. Extreme heatwaves, long droughts that lead to wildfires and failed crops, downpours that cause floods, rising sea levels that threaten coastal areas, and biodiversity loss as animals and plants no longer able to live in their old habitats – all these phenomena have become more frequent and more intense over the past few decades.

Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK), one of the six Graduate Schools of Wageningen University & Research, studies changes in our natural environment, their consequences for life on Earth, and how we can adapt to mitigate harmful effects.

In doing so, WIMEK researchers focus on three major societal challenges: climate action, managing our future biosphere, and developing circular systems. They do this through innovative and multidisciplinary research, looking beyond the borders of the Netherlands. The research is broad and diverse: from determining the exact risks of microplastics to contributing to policy-making at the highest political levels.

With their research addressing these three Grand Challenges, Wageningen researchers help develop solutions to the social and scientific issues facing us today due to the changing natural living environment.

Would you like to read more? Then click on one of the magazines below.

WIMEK's Climate Stories

Grand Challenge: Climate Action

WIMEK's Planet Earth Stories

Grand Challenge: Managing our future biosphere

WIMEK's Ecological Recycling Stories

Grand Challenge: Advancing circular systems

De strijd tegen klimaatverandering

Grand Challenge: Klimaatactie

Biodiversiteitsverlies tegengaan

Grand Challenge: Beheer van natuurlijke leefruimte

Kostbare kringlopen sluiten

Grand Challenge: Verbetering circulaire systemen