Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

innovations-report offers informative reports and articles on topics such as climate protection, landscape conservation, ecological systems, wildlife and nature parks and ecosystem efficiency and balance.

Keeping an eye on the regions when it comes to climate change

Up to now, the results of climate simulations have sometimes contradicted the analysis of climate traces from the past. A team led by the physicist Thomas Laepple from the Alfred…

Deploying sensor nets to measure ocean CO2 and pH

… from the surface to the depths. University of Pittsburgh and NETL among 11 projects to receive combined $36 million from US DOE ARPA-E initiative. Researchers at the University of…

Light, freshwater sticks to Greenland’s east coast

Meltwater that runs along the east coast of Greenland, hardly enters the open ocean before reaching the western side of the island.  That is one of the conclusions NIOZ PhD-candidate…

Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air

Field test finds carbon stored in soils even in dry climates. Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a…

Between Arctic Land and Sea

Innovative atlas reveals perilous realities of permafrost thaw. The European funded Horizon 2020 “NUNATARYUK”-project, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has carried out a comprehensive six-year investigation into the rapidly…

Scientists discover deepest known evidence of coral reef bleaching

Scientists have discovered the deepest known evidence of coral reef bleaching, more than 90 metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean. The damage – attributed to a 30% rise…

Page
1 20 21 22 23 24 1,061