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.

Combating Maritime Litter

Maritime litter is among the most urgent global pollution issues. Marine scientist Nikoleta Bellou and her team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon have published an overview study of solutions for prevention, monitoring,…

How to avoid 3.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year

The team of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung investigates a new route to produce green steel through hydrogen plasma. Germany, Europe and almost all countries in the world are heading towards…

Forest use changes life cycles of wildflowers

Plant ecologists at the University of Tübingen compare temporal rhythms of early-flowering plants in different environments. One of the most striking features of global warming is that the life rhythms…

The biodegradable battery

The number of data-transmitting microdevices, for instance in packaging and transport logistics, will increase sharply in the coming years. All these devices need energy, but the amount of batteries would…

Polarstern Sets Sail for the Arctic

Expedition to long-term observatory between Greenland and Svalbard. On Whit Monday, 24 May 2021, the Polarstern will set sail for the Arctic. In Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard, more…

Saving the eastern monarch butterfly

Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly larvae) can be restored. Simon Fraser University researchers are playing…

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