UFZ scientists have analysed the impact of plastics on the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution. Regulations accounting for these interlinks could be established in the negotiation of the UN Global Plastics Treaty in November. »
Three UFZ scientists - Prof Josef Settele, Prof Ingolf Kühn and Prof Jakob Zscheischler - are represented in the annual ranking of the most cited and therefore most influential researchers worldwide in 2024.»
Traditionally, agricultural productivity has been evaluated as yield per unit of land. In view of the urgency of climate change, limited resources and environmental impacts, this way of thinking falls short, write UFZ researchers in their policy brief. »
The chimneys are formed by minerals crystallizing out of highly saline groundwater flowing out of the lake floor. As UFZ researchers report in Science of the Total Environment, the chimneys could be an early warning indicator for the hazardous sinkholes.»
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.»
My project,BioNeCS, aims to understand how land use intensity gradients affect formation, decomposition, and stabilization of microbial necromass-derived soil organic matter by impacting the microbial community composition and its associated physiological properties.
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Das FLOW-Projekt: Fließgewässer erforschen – gemeinsam Wissen schaffen
Pesticide Watch: findings from an Australian river monitoring program ...
