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RSS![Three JRC technical reports reviewing new biometric modalities for their integration in the Schengen Information System](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-07/artboard_12_2x-20.jpg?itok=3Va1sxpQ)
Last year’s reform of the EU’s Schengen Information System legislation has strengthened the role of facial, fingermark and DNA recognition...
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Today, an update of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - was published, focusing on the recent weakening of pasture conditions in large...
![The study shows that the number of people killed by extreme climate events – as a proportion of the population exposed to such events – dropped by more than 6 times over the past four decades.](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-07/adobestock_169465415.jpeg?itok=GsvVcgCz)
Societies worldwide have become more resilient to climate disasters but climate change is likely to result in an unprecedented rise in climate...
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Two MARS Crop Monitoring Bulletins were published yesterday 25th June 2019, covering Russia and Kazakhstan.
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The development of new technologies and new business models is transforming everything about how we move, and how we live our lives.
Sustainable development has been at the heart of European policy for a long time, firmly anchored in the European Treaties. But sustainable...
![Seaweeds can provide an alternative source of food, feed, fuel and livelihood for an ever-expanding population](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-05/divedog_adobestock_115213221.jpeg?itok=a92QUggO)
A new report gives scientific guidance to help meet a growing global demand for seaweeds while also protecting resources and the environment.
![About 2.9 billion international trips occurred in 2016](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-05/rawpixel.com_adobestock_81647703.jpeg?itok=3Fh8qmR5)
The EU is the region with the highest mobility in the world
![A wide range of migration data is collected and disseminated in Europe at national and, sometimes, sub-national level](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-04/neweurope_migration_data.jpg?itok=bakDRcfY)
New webpage brings together an array of data sources to provide evidence on European migration in one place.
![Acute hunger still affecting over 100 million people worldwide according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2019-04/adobestock_blasius_mrowiec_10366341.jpeg?itok=RuZMd7Kq)
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018...