Academic institutions fulfil a mission of advancing research and providing higher-level education. Wherever academic work is involved, disputes are to be expected, and these may sometimes develop into conflicts that must be managed in such a way as to prevent them from becoming destructive to academic institutions themselves — universities, research and educational institutes, and…

Ekologia.pl has published a ranking of 50 important people in Polish ecology. At the top of the list are the most notable scientists with a lifetime experience in research - climatologists, ecologists, hydrobiologists, foresters, and naturalists, whose work has been setting standards for environmental discourse in Poland. In the top ten is dr hab. Zygmunt…