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Promising young researchers from around the world are visiting the Federal Republic of Germany in October to present and discuss their projects in the field of sustainable development with German elite researchers during a two-week expedition to ...

In the Ghanaian capital of Accra, waste sits on the streets or piles up in unregulated rubbish dumps. This not only presents a serious risk to public health, but also leads to significant greenhouse gas emissions due to the uncontrolled decomposition and ...

BMBF funds social-ecological research and a new working group at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in cooperation with the Social Sciences department at the University of Bremen with close to two million euros. Joint Press Release ...

Today the research project BioRescue for the rescue of the Northern White Rhino, which is threatened with extinction, is officially launched. State-of-the-art reproduction and stem cell technology shall ensure the survival of this key species. The ...

Become a Green Talent, promote your research in Germany and benefit from an exclusive network of excellent green researchers. The goal of sustainable development is to find a balance between the need for socio-economic development and the need to ...

Under the tag line “Building bridges – a tour of Germany’s leading research centres”, German and African researchers exchanged ideas about renewable energy in late March. Within the scope of this topic, the German Federal Ministry ...

The dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research report in a new study, today only 20 percent of the sea ice that ...

Many studies suggest that mangroves are gigantic carbon reservoirs and an important factor for climate protection. But so far there has been no precise calculation of how much carbon a mangrove forest stores in a given period of time. Such figures, ...

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is one of the world’s leading climate research initiatives. Effective immediately, Prof. Detlef Stammer from the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) at Universität Hamburg will be ...

Indeed, oceans play a key role in the climate system and are also affected by climate change. Uncertainties of climate-ocean interactions and its buffered actions for heat and CO2 absorption call for more progress on observations and modelling.

Sustainable mobility requires strong research that develops innovations and puts them to the test in practice. The BMBF is therefore strengthening mobility research with two funding announcements under the research agenda Sustainable Urban Mobility, ...

An international team of scientists heads to Antarctica this week to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem that’s been hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf for up to 120,000 years.

Twenty years ago, CEOs of leading marine research institutes set up the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) in particular to better coordinate ocean observations worldwide. This week more than 40 executives from marine research ...

Silicon solar cells dominate the photovoltaic market today but the technology approaches the theoretical maximum efficiency that can be achieved with silicon as the only absorber material. Tandem solar cells, on the other hand, combine several absorber ...