The 2021 Westlake International Symposium in Engineering (WISE) was a great opportunity to meet international and local experts in...

How can we understand the activity of wild bats? Mostly soundless, flying in the dark, bats feed at night and evade our senses. Many bats...

As one of the world's most respected environmental news outlets, Mongabay held a press event on #agroecology and #agroforestry. Tom to...

The INCOCOA webinar is focusing on "The Cocoa Challenges of Tomorrow". Invited key speakers from each of the cocoa growing regions will...

Biodiversity continues to decline rapidly, despite decades of repeated national and international policy efforts. Agricultural...

How are interacting pollutants affecting agricultural systems? And how can diversification mitigate potential effects? We have spent the...

Tom had the incredible opportunity to give a keynote lecture alongside Yifang Wang on the challenges and opportunities for agriculture in...

Views on natural resource use vary greatly between countries, are heavily debated, and views of the global south are often largely...

Our new article "Genome-edited tree crops: mind the socioeconomic implementation gap" led by Manu from our group was just published in...

...in our new article "Beyond organic farming–harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes" that just came out in Trends in Ecology and...

China has experienced a rapid development in recent years. Nevertheless, the image of China is characterized by ideas and clichés,...

It is again this time of the year when new PhD students finally arrive at Westlake University and join the labs. This year we have two...

It is always difficult to see great people leave - three SAT Labbers are moving on to new challenges in August. Mengxue will keep working...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology aims to impact the global engineering community to engineer a better world and to solve...

This year, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation conference is online - it is great, because we are not missing out on...

Kevin and Vincent have been working hard to automate biodiversity monitoring with the next generation camera traps. These amazing devices...

The "Sweet Sustainability: Cocoa Agroforestry Advantages" has been an exciting three-day event to discuss all the benefits around cocoa...

Together with colleagues from the Global Agroforestry Network and supported by Mighty Earth and the Global Platform on Natural...

The European Cocoa Association (ECA) is a trade association of the major companies involved in the cocoa bean trade, processing,...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) works on the environmental, economic,...