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.
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CO2 in the deep Earth may be more active than previously thought and may have played a bigger role in climate change than scientists knew before, according to a study…
Start-up LiBCycle takes complete care of used e-car batteries. What began as an idea about a transport container for old batteries has in the meantime grown into a complete recycling…
… while other marine life languishes in the Florida Keys. In the summer of 2020, Florida Museum researchers Tobias Grun and Michał Kowalewski dove into the shallow waters off the…
KIT researchers and partners suspect that much more plastic is transported in flowing waters than previously assumed and are developing new modelling approaches. Rivers play a key role in the…
Researchers decipher the history and sensitivity of the largest tropical peatland in Congo. When peat swamps dry out they can release large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Because…
Federal Minister of Research Stark-Watzinger christens research cutter Uthörn. Today, German Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger christened the Alfred Wegener Institute’s new research vessel Uthörn at the…