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.

Fighting coastal erosion with electricity

Bioinspired process makes marine sand more durable, resistant to erosion. New research from Northwestern University has systematically proven that a mild zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for…

Hydropower generation projected to rise

…but climate change brings uncertain future. A new analysis combines hydrology data with climate change models to help water managers prepare for hydropower’s future. In a new study assessing how…

Hailstone library to improve extreme weather forecasting

A global library – full of hailstones instead of books – is helping researchers to better understand and predict damaging storms. A University of Queensland library – full of hailstones…

Biodiversity in the open ocean

– a European monitoring project at ZMT. Biodiversity is difficult to observe and assess in the open ocean, which is vast and difficult to access. The European research project “Monitoring…

Pit-building venom mixers

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Giessen report in a new study in Communications Biology, that the adaptation of antlion larvae to their…

A belly full of jelly

For a long time, scientists assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has…

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