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The June edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Global outlook for North Africa describes a cereal season marked by drought until February/March, accompanied by hot temperatures in Morocco and western Algeria.
This resulted in irreversible loss of yield potentials in Morocco, while in Algeria, despite

According to the June issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe, published today, the yield outlook for EU winter crops is slightly reduced for the third consecutive month. At EU level, the yield forecasts for soft wheat, durum wheat and winter barley are now just below the 5-year a

The European Commission’s new algorithm developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) can segment social media messages to identify, verify and help manage disaster events — such as floods, fires or earthquakes —in real-time.

Deploying renewable mini-grids across the nearly 300 refugee settlements in sub-Saharan Africa would provide clean energy for 5 million people as well as support them by providing the opportunity for some income generation.

Scientists from the JRC and the University of Siena propose a commonly shared characterisation strategy for nanovaccines to improve performance and reduce development times.

The steel industry is responsible for around 5% of CO2 emissions in the EU and 7% globally. It needs to develop and commercialise new low-CO2 technologies within the next 5-10 years in order to be in line with the EU’s climate targets.

According to the June edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin in the global outlook series on Ukraine, adverse weather conditions since the start of the 2021 – 2022 season have led to a poor yield outlook for winter crops in a major part of central and western Ukraine. Fair yields are expected in the east

Climate change and La Niña have caused an unprecedented multi-season drought, punctuated by one of the worst March-to-May rains in 70 years

Maintaining and restoring our soils is key to achieve climate neutrality, zero pollution, sustainable food provision and a resilient environment.

Agricultural production threatened by combination of drought and high input prices in many countries

JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe: Yield forecasts for EU winter crops are revised slightly downwards due to drier-than-usual conditions in most parts of Europe.

The JRC has launched a new pseudonymisation system, which will first be applied for the European Platform on Rare Disease Registration.

The new observatory will help put the EU on the path towards a sustainable, carbon-neutral and circular blue economy.

Low winter cereal production expected in North Africa and Middle East; Drought worsens in East Africa

The new IRMM-3000a series is a diluted version of the IRMM-3000 series certified in 2021, a set of highly enriched uranium material standards needed for calibrating mass spectrometry measurements of nuclear samples for nuclear safeguards and security

According to the April issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe, published today, weather conditions in most parts of western, northern, and north-central Europe were adequate for winter crop development, and allowed for the good progress of spring sowings and other field operation

More than 2400 natural disasters have struck Europe in the last 30 year, causing huge economic losses from climatological, meteorological and hydrological. The Risk Data Hub (RDH) hosts resources to help authorities manage risks and justify financial support requests to cope with these major events.

On 29 March 2022, JRC, EGVIAfor2Zero and BEPA signed a Collaboration Agreement aiming at the identification and development of new approaches in the areas of battery technologies, battery testing and sustainability assessment.

The March edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available on ASAP assessment website.