The 2025 Triennial Conference and General Assembly ofthe InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) took place 8-11 December 2025 in Cairo, Egypt, hosted by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). This is a very interesting and prestigious international conference with the aim to discuss how science can help advancing sound policies,...
It is a sad but evident fact that the expansion of agricultural areas over the past centuries has led to an enormous loss of natural habitats worldwide. However, it is perhaps less well known that the unprecedented intensification of agriculture in the decades following the Second World War has also caused the disappearance of many weed species...
We are very grateful for the support of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) for supporting our project entitled "How Can Small Grasslands Help Protect Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes?" (PI: Balázs Deák), that provides an excellent possibility for studying the importance of small habitat islands (covered with...
Our recent study published in the Plants, People, Planet journal revealed that ancient burial mounds – also known as kurgans – play a crucial role in preserving medicinal plant species and their phytochemical diversity within European agricultural landscapes. These mounds, constructed thousands of years ago by steppe nomadic cultures, are widely...
In a nice international team led by Valentin Klaus we have recently published a comment paper about the potential of the EU Nature Restoration Law in making our cities more resilient, biodiverse and liveable.
Over the last two years we have been working on a very interesting and topical issue in an international research group, resulting in the publication of the latest study by the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) entitled Changing Wildfires: Policy Options for a Fire-literate and Fire-adapted Europe. A total of 22 international...
Our latest article a review of the soil seed bank of drylans, has been published with the first authorship of Abdubakir Kushbokov.
Our new paper by Katalin Lukács et al. has recently been published in Journal of Environmental Management.
A very inspiring and successful conference entitled "Protecting the kurgans '30" was organised by the Government Office of Békés County, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Körös-Maros National Park Directorate in Békéscsaba on 21 November 2024. The occasion of the event was that 30 years ago, in the same place, a...
Our new paper by Laura Godó et al. has recently been published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment about the effect of mound-building and caching activities of the steppe mouse.
