News about Romania
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The Fourth International Conference on Energy and Sustainability will be held from 19 to 21 June 2013 in Bucharest, Romania.
The world's economic system is driven by energy. Few of the advances made over the past two centuries would have been possible without the large-scale exploitation of fossil fuels. Resources depletion and predictions of severe environmental effects deriving from continued use of ...
Scientists hope to gain a better understanding of the causes of oxygen depletion among fish populations with an EU-funded project called HYPOX.
It is hoped that by continuous monitoring of coastal ecosystems around the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Arctic sea, including fjords, lagoons and lakes, that fisheries can be better managed. According to Traian Gomoiu, the project team leader working for Romania's ...
The Ninth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development will take place from 18 to 20 June 2013 in Bucharest, Romania.
In light of the rapid changes in large-scale human and biophysical processes - carbon emissions, population increase and migrations, overharvesting and pollution leading to a loss in biodiversity - scientists are worried that many of the socio-ecological systems ...
A new research project that will pioneer a nanoscope to screen patient cells and potentially help with the early detection of Alzheimer's disease has just kicked off.
With a boost of more than EUR 4 million in funding from the 'Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the LANIR ('Label free nanoscopy using infra red') ...
An event entitled 'International workshop on motion capture and classification' will take place from 19 to 21 September 2012 in Bucharest, Romania.
Motion capture and classification are important tasks in fields where large collections of motion material are archived and processed. In recent years, the gaming industry has done extensive research in motion detection and processing, resulting in low-cost ...
An international team of researchers has discovered that global warming is triggering the migration of plants to higher altitudes. Presented in the journal Science, the findings revealed that vascular plants have moved upwards by 2.7 metres, increasing the chances for high-mountain species to become extinct. The study was funded in part by the GLORIA-EUROPE ('The European dimension of the global observation ...
An event entitled 'Water resources and wetlands' will take place from 14 to 16 September 2012 in Tulcea, Romania.
With a great deal of attention being focused on water resources in Europe, there is a need to integrate various approaches and angles in the research of inland and sea waters. Part of the challenge is to establish sustainable ways of solving present and future problems generated by the ever ...
This week, the European Commission highlighted the achievements of the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP), an initiative that started 3 years ago.
Since 2009, metrology research in Europe has been jointly addressed, financed and researched by 22 European countries and the EU in a joint programme, implemented by EURAMET e.V. The EMRP fosters collaboration between European metrology institutes, ...
As Germany was struck by a devastating Escherichia coli (E. coli) crisis in June 2011, the dangers of transferring life-threatening disease-causing germs in food from one country to another once again hit the headlines. Despite the alarm however, until now very few studies have been carried out into the actual danger posed by germs that enter the EU along with food. Step in a new EU-funded project that ...
A new Nordic-led study has challenged a widely held belief that the last glacial period wiped out the Scandinavian landscape of trees until the emergence of milder weather, which melted away the ice sheet around 9,000 years ago. Presented in the journal Science, the findings suggest that some of the conifers survived on mountain peaks that protruded from the ice sheet, both along the coast and on islands. ...
