Month: December 2025

Europe races to save its underwater heritage from climate change

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Scientists are working to protect Europe’s underwater and coastal heritage that is threatened by climate-related hazards. © Marcello Di Francesco, IANTD, THETIDA, 2025

As climate change accelerates, EU-funded researchers have mobilised to safeguard Europe’s underwater and coastal heritage with innovative methods and cutting-edge technology. By Gareth Willmer Forty metres beneath the sea off north-western Italy lies one of the country’s best-preserved World War II shipwrecks. The Equa, an Italian cannon-equipped submarine chaser, sank with no casualties after being … Read more

From mines to meadows: how science is reviving Europe’s forgotten landscapes

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Researchers are using innovative methods to revive landscapes around former coal mines across Europe, such as the Janina mine in southern Poland. © GIG-PIB, 2025

EU-funded researchers are transforming former coal-mining sites across Europe into thriving areas that provide lasting environmental and social benefits. By Kaja Šeruga When Professor Alicja Krzemień set out to turn one of Poland’s largest coal-mining waste heaps into a thriving meadow, she faced an uphill battle. Together with fellow researchers in an EU-funded collaboration called … Read more