• press release Climate change could increase mobility of toxic metals in soils
On 1 November, the Federal Cabinet appointed new members to the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Prof Dr Aletta Bonn, Head of the Department of Biodiversity and People at UFZ and iDiv, is one of the nine scientists.»
These could enter the food chain and destabilise ecosystems, write researchers from UFZ and the University of Tübingen in Nature Communications Earth and Environment. They show that climate change almost doubles the mobility of cadmium in agricultural soils, for example.»
Many regions of Germany experienced extreme drought in the summer of 2022. A research team coordinated by UFZ has now discovered that more than a third of the extraordinary intensity and physical extent of the drought can be attributed to climate change. »
In a study published in Science, a research team from the UFZ has shown that chemicals that are found in humans as complex mixtures act together – even if the concentrations of the individual substances are below the effect threshold.»
Geoscientist Andrea Kaim analyses the conflicting goals that can arise during the transformation of agriculture towards more multifunctionality. To this end, she brings together various research disciplines as part of the junior research group AgriScape, which she heads.»
Exploring microbial diversity over wide geographic areas (delta diversity) using genome-centric approaches
“Searching for the evolutionary origins of chemical toxicity”
Das FLOW-Projekt: Fließgewässer erforschen – gemeinsam Wissen schaffen
