Every time someone takes medication, a small amount of it enters wastewater via their urine. It also ends up in surface water and even drinking water (in small concentrations). Annually, this amounts to about 140 tonnes of drug residues, which…
That it was particularly warm in August will not be news to many people. But exactly how hot did it get in the Dutch inner cities? This sixth episode focuses on the figures from Zwolle, Haarlem and Breda. As usual,…
Things are going well for CC Diagnostics. The start-up from the Dutch city of Groningen is developing a new test for cervical cancer that works more efficiently and should be more user-friendly for female recipients. The company is currently conducting…
Things are going well for the Ghent-based company Cheqroom. In March, the company secured 14 million euros in funding from the American investor Level Equity and has since opened offices in New York and Barcelona. Cheqroom supplies software to media…
Circularity is one way to help make the green transition happen. Now, everything can get a second life, and even what we used to consider trash can be a valuable resource. The same goes for industrial byproducts. If producing biogas…
When Sinem Tuncer founded Arkive over two years ago, she initially did it together with a friend. Her friend works in the beauty industry for a major brand. By talking to her and other friends who work in the industry,…
With the acceleration of the energy transition, the reliability and optimization of critical components of the power grid, such as high voltage and grid transformers, becomes even more important. Real-time measurement of the operation can make networks smarter and safer.…
In the professional life of food expert and university lecturer Alie de Boer, everything revolves around getting honest information about healthy and sustainable food. Being patronized is a pet peeve of hers. “Every consumer should be able to make their…
Roland Kupers of the UN Environment Programme recently argued in the Dutch newspaper FD that the Netherlands could solve the European gas problem with more gas from Groningen. He also rightly argued that the profits should be used for damage…
In our weekly recap on Sunday, we as editors look back at the past seven days. We do this at the suggestion of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from…