Guiding degree choice has little effect

Student
News
A new system to provide some guidance in choosing a degree programme had very little impact on the number of first-years dropping out, show results…

Greenhouse horticulture better for water and soil

Science
Nature & environment
Intensive vegetable growing in a modern greenhouse causes less environmental damage and…

Conifers give way to deciduous woodland

Science
The forests in the Netherlands are becoming increasingly mixed. Slowly but surely,…

PhD students want apartments

Student
Wageningen needs to build more accommodation suitable for PhD students. This means,…

Blog: Struggle for an internship

Student
Blog
As a Nepalese girl in search of an internship in a developed…

Blog: The effects of three years in Wageningen

Student
As the author (Christian, 2014) is currently forcibly extracting a bachelor's thesis…

Loss of oil revenue strangling South Sudan

Science
Politics
The 500 million euros which the Netherlands has spent on development aid…

Urban vegetation makes heat bearable

Science
Even more than water, green spaces make us feel comfortable in a…

CO2 does not make tropical forest grow faster

Science
Tropical trees do not grow any faster when there is more CO2…

Goodbye to plastic cups

Organisation
Wageningen UR is switching to paper coffee cups in the office. About…