In recent years, the genus Brachypodium has become of great interest to researchers, for use as a model grass system for cereal crops. Exploring the traits of a model species provides researchers with a broader understanding ...

Mankind faces huge economic, technological and societal challenges if we are to meet the climate targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement of limiting global warming to 2°C and avoid the most devastating effects of ...

The Munster Blackwater catchment, in the South West of Ireland, was regularly subject to flooding, prior to flood allevation works. The towns of Mallow and Fermoy within the catchment suffered many disturbances for their ...

Globally, extreme weather events are responsible for far more financial losses than the increase in mean temperature. In the context of climate change, attribution of the ever-increasing losses from these high-impact events ...