News archive 2018

November 2018

• Innovative technologies to help deter environmental crime
• EU Raw Materials Week 2018 – closing the loop on critical raw materials
• Sustainable farming to mitigate climate change
• Making ceramics more climate-friendly
• Catching public pressure on marine litter
• Saving the European lynx – building on hunters' legacy
• Finding cleaner alternatives to textile finishing products
• Coexistence with wolves in a changing Romania
• Saving energy on a tight budget

October 2018

• Helping swifts and bats find a place to nest
• Silencing underwater noise for sustainable oceans
• Member States to benefit from quarter of a billion euros of investments in environment, nature and climate action
• Combating 'shameful' food waste
• Safer roads for Greek drivers and bears
• New solutions from LIFE at ECOMONDO 2018
• Preventing food waste benefits the environment and economy
• Reducing the carbon footprint of energy-intensive industries

September 2018

• Biodegradable films to save crops and cut farming costs
• Building a better LIFE with citizen science
• EU food sector raises the bar on biodiversity
• Climate Action project applicants seek nearly €200 million from LIFE
• Enabling invertebrates to play an essential role in ecosystems
• New app for greener travel by public transport
• How LIFE is improving our seas
• Bringing soils back to life
• Bringing PVC-free blood bags one step closer

August 2018

• New developments in ship recycling
• Changing lives for a changing climate
• Waste sludge finds new life as biofuel
• Plant-fibre guardrails hit EU roads
• Hydrogen-powered bin lorries move closer to market
• Patchwork landscape management protects rare butterflies
• Greening processed food production
• Training fishermen to save sea turtles
• In with the old, out with the new in Kleine Nete

July 2018

• Beer project gives fizz to the circular economy – cheers!
• Reusing seagrass for 'hyper-local' homes on Formentera
• Paris coats roads to tackle heat and traffic noise
• Important information to all potential applicants for Integrated Projects (IPs)
• LIFE's marine explorers protect more Maltese waters
• New life for the bears of the Pyrenees
• Untilled fields lock carbon underground
• Restoring a natural haven in the city

June 2018

• Orchids bloom again in Luxembourg
• One thousand new concepts for LIFE projects
• Rural Ghana gains from LIFE-backed energy storage breakthrough
• ESC gives volunteers a chance to 'Choose Nature'
• Onboard with marine protection in Spain

May 2018

• Solving the Italian beach litter mystery
• LIFE gives power to sustainable energy solutions
• EU awards best LIFE projects for nature, environment and climate action
• Beekeepers track invasive hornets to their nest
• Mediterranean prosecutors unite against avian killing
• Safe passage for migrating geese

April 2018

• 40 000 bunnies hop off to save Iberian ecosystems
• Call open for Technical Assistance projects
• Vote for your favourite LIFE green city project!
• Schoolboy environmentalist thanked by Italian president
• Sunshine in your pocket
• How to get your Close-to-Market proposal approved
• Apply now for LIFE funding!
• Cool new tiles hit EU market

March 2018

• Tackling illegal killing along migratory flyways
• Restored lake helps bring Denmark's largest bog back to life
• Tree farms grow greener
• LIFE Calls for Proposals to be published in 2018
• NCFF loans €15 million for green projects in Croatia
• Vote now for the European Natura 2000 Citizens' Award
• Timber rooftops reduce construction sector emissions
• Farms and forests confront climate change in the Mediterranean
• Of wolf and man: reconciliation across the Alps
• Open water for safer suburbs

February 2018

• Textile treatments stop microplastics released in the wash
• Towards standard CO2 accounting for sustainable forest management
• More money for nature and biodiversity
• Member States to benefit from €98.2 million in investments to improve citizens' quality of life
• Benicàssim recycles spare tiles into climate-resilient drain
• Two-stage application for LIFE Environment sub-programme - a major simplification for LIFE applicants
• New features of the LIFE Multiannual Work Programme 2018-2020
• Keep that noise down
• How LIFE projects contribute to a greener and innovative industry
• Green List your Natura 2000 site
• Fine advice on air quality

January 2018

• Thermal census scouts out agricultural pests in laser fence project
• LIFE project's investigation leads to landmark wildlife crime case
• EU birdwatchers offer bird’s-eye view
• Mongolian tradition could conserve Hungarian steppe
• EU strategy deals with plastic waste
• Drone monitors moorland recovery
• LIFE summit spells out socioeconomic dividends of Natura 2000