• ESMH workshop : Tackling mis / disinformation in Science, 6 Feb. 2019

    Past Events

    How to tackle disinformation in science? How scientists and journalists could work better together in order to prevent misinformation? The knowledge lab of the ESMH on 6th February will take a closer look at some initiatives.

    on January 30, 2019

  • ESMH Press Review – January 23, 2019

    Media review

    Smart homes, planetary health diet, fake users in internet : check the latest ESMH selection of 20 science and tech news published in the last two weeks all around the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media.

    on January 23, 2019

  • EU Project : VORTEX

    EU projects
    VORTEX : In the Horizon 2020 project VORTEX, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sear Research investigates the degradation of (micro)plastics in marine environments, from estuaries and coastal areas to offshore seas and the deep ocean. NIOZ (the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) biogeochemist...
    on January 16, 2019

  • EU Project : TOPIOS

    EU projects
    TOPIOS : In the EU-funded TOPIOS project, which started in April 2017, scientists are trying to solve the so-called ‘missing plastic problem’. “This means that as much as 99 % of ocean plastic is missing: we don’t know exactly where it is or what damage it is doing. TOPIOS aims to fill in the gaps in...
    on January 16, 2019

  • EU Project : CACH

    EU projects
    CACH : Ice-core records show that glacials had lower atmospheric pCO2 and cooler temperatures than today and that the last deglaciation was punctuated by large, abrupt millennial-scale climate events. Explaining the mechanism controlling these oscillations remains an outstanding puzzle. The ocean is...
    on January 16, 2019

  • The Oceans of Plastics – Plastisphere: A new term for the marine environment

    Articles, Environment

    Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic waste enters the oceans. Plastics pollution is so ubiquitous that scientists have coined a new term for the marine environment: the plastisphere.

    on January 16, 2019

  • EU Project : NET&ME

    EU projects
    NET&ME : Growing global concern about the public health and societal costs of problematic use of the internet, which has an estimated prevalence of 6% among the general population and which is increasingly recognised to affect children and young people, represents an emerging challenge for mental health...
    on January 09, 2019

  • STOA study : Harms of the internet to individuals, culture and society

    STOA studies

    It is increasingly recognised that the internet, in spite of all its benefits to society, can also be correlated with significant harms to individuals and society.

    on January 09, 2019

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