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.

Laser against biofouling

Eco-friendly underwater cleaning of ship hulls. The settlement of mussels and algae on ship hulls not only increases the fuel consumption of ships but can also threaten ecosystems. The Laser…

How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater

A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air. As carbon dioxide continues to…

Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner, safer and longer-lasting

Natural gas furnaces not only heat your home, they also produce a lot of pollution. Even modern high-efficiency condensing furnaces produce significant amounts of corrosive acidic condensation and unhealthy levels…

BlueRemediomics: harnessing marine microbes

… to promote a circular bioeconomy. Funding awarded for developing tools to harness marine microbiome data for biotechnological applications and ecosystem services. The European Commission has funded the BlueRemediomics project,…

A second chance to protect wetlands

Study highlights regions with high wetland loss over past 300 years. Wetlands are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. A new study, published in Nature, has found that…

Deep-sea black carbon comes from hydrothermal vents

Hydrothermal vents have been identified as a previously undiscovered source of dissolved black carbon in the oceans, furthering the understanding of the role of oceans as a carbon sink. The…

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