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Drenthe is making a grant of 170,000 euros available to companies which cannot start their energy project due to insufficient space on the electricity network. The money is intended to study the feasibility of alternatives to a grid connection. Depending on the province, the initiators of sustainable energy projects in Drenthe are grappling with the obstacles of network congestion or …

Nest with young larks. Own image While the ears of wheat are just beginning to reproduce, the first young wood larks from Aekingerzand in the Drentse-Friese Wold almost fly away. There are now hardly any protected nests on the ground anywhere in the area, but thanks to the new signage and intensive protection and information, these vulnerable ground brothers of …

Massih HutakApril 22, 2021, 8:51 The municipality of Amsterdam decided that art and culture should be “stimulated” in the districts of Zuidoost, Nieuw-West and Noord. And she asks residents to participate. One of the best examples of the distance between government and the citizen is the definition given to art and culture. Where the municipality formulates it poorly according to …

A nuclear power station located in the port of Antwerp, along the left bank of the Scheldt, near the village of Doel.Sculpture Arie Kievit Europe wants to become a world leader in sustainability. To this end, green targets have been set in recent years. For example, yesterday the EU accepted the CO2emissions by more than half by law by 2030. …

The agricultural problem has grown over the years, but it is not insoluble. However, action must be taken now. “We have to tackle it now,” former agriculture minister Cees Veerman told In de Middag. “The Netherlands is a country in its own right, there are many claims on this area and these claims are multiplying. It is not so much …

Last night, Europe took another step towards climate neutrality by 2050. Negotiators from the three institutions – Commission, Council and Parliament – agreed to commit to climate neutrality and a temporary reduction CO2 emissions of at least 55% by 2030, in a Climate Law. The timing is crucial as US President Joe Biden calls an important climate summit later this …

For a long time, it was believed that we – or rather our brains – are unable to follow moving sounds. But now it seems to have been proven otherwise. How can we follow the sound in motion A passing car, a mosquito, a talking person: these are all moving sounds. There has been a great deal of research into …

A plea for Dutch as an academic language is not automatically resistance against internationalization, says Mathijs Sanders. According to him, essential citizenship begins with mastery of one’s own mother tongue. Imagine the famous historian Johan Huizinga creating his magnum opus Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919) had written in English, for example because he had to compete for a large …

Applications installed on your smartphone or tablet can consume a large portion of your internal memory unnoticed. From Android 12, the space is automatically freed because the operating system puts the infrequently used applications in standby mode. Phil Schwartz“Food expert. Unapologetic bacon maven. Beer enthusiast. Pop cultureaholic. General travel scholar. Total internet buff.”

The Mars Ingenuity helicopter made its first successful flight. The unmanned aircraft thus made history by being the first helicopter to fly over another planet. Daphne Stam, planet specialist, TU Delft, contributes News and Co explains why the seemingly unimpressive flight is such a big achievement. “Flying on Mars is very difficult,” says Stam. “There is almost no air on …