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.

Microplastic pollution in the Northeast Atlantic

First long-term record from deep water layers of the open ocean. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) for the first time analysed a long-term sample…

Magnet recycling pays off

More sustainable e-mobility. Magnets are valuable components. Although functional magnet recycling methods have been developed in recent years, they have not yet been applied in practice and magnets continue to…

The world’s rivers are changing, here’s how

Results quantify how construction of dams and land use change alters sediment flux to oceans. The way rivers function is significantly affected by how much sediment they transport and where…

Six guiding principles for the EU agricultural policy to halt biodiversity loss

To halt biodiversity loss, the future design of EU agricultural policy could be guided by six basic principles and accompanied by multi-annual agreements and progressive payment systems. These are at…

Systematic warming pool discovered in the Pacific due to human activities

A long-term, increasingly warming pool of water in the northeast Pacific was recently discovered by a team of researchers from Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS. It measures three million…

Catching microplastics with spider webs

A study by a research team of the University of Oldenburg, Germany, reveals that spider webs mirror varying levels of microplastic contamination of urban air. Flies, mosquitoes, dust and even…

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