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In the latest issue of Nature Geoscience, an international team of scientists shows that the current land management, promoting monocultures in forestry and agriculture, has a negative impact on water resources and hinders climate change adaptation. Their conclusions have been based on the analysis of ecohydrological processes. Prof. Maciej Zalewski, from the European Regional Center for Ecohydrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, co-authored the article.

The Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna) invite scientists of the humanities and social sciences to an online workshop, which will take place on December 4-5, 2020. The meetings are addressed to researchers, who intend to apply for Starting or Consolidator ERC grants in the years 2021-2023.

Today, the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to the British mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and two astronomers: Prof. Reinhard Genzel from Germany and Prof. Andrei M. Ghez from the US. Penrose, together with the famous British cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018, have proven the famous black hole theorem. Prof. Penrose has been a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1994.