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Keeping EU citizens safe and warm
04-04-2019 | © picture
Every day thousands of people across Europe are working together to keep EU citizens safe from challenges to do with health, the environment, crime, terrorism, migration and the economy.
Putting energy poverty on the map
26-11-2018 | © Stefan Bouzarovski
A project funded by the ERC developed an innovative and comprehensive framework to study energy poverty in Europe. It also produced evidence applicable beyond academia, laying ground for the EU’s Energy Poverty Observatory set up in 2018.
Major breakthrough could help detoxify pollutants
20-10-2014 | Portrait ©David Leys, University of Manchester | Image: ©David Leys, University of Manchester and Nature
Scientists at the University of Manchester (UK) hope a major breakthrough could lead to more effective methods for detoxifying dangerous pollutants like PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and dioxins. The result is a culmination of 15 years of research and has been published in Nature on 19 October. It details how certain organisms manage to lower the toxicity of pollutants.