• press release Impending threats to biodiversity
This Handbook (edited by Holger Straßheim, Bielefeld University and Silke Beck, UFZ) unites interdisciplinary scholarship, with contributions critically assessing the state and direction of behavioural public policies, their normative implications and political consequences.»
An interdisciplinary research team, in which UFZ landscape ecologist Ralf Seppelt was also involved, has dealt with trade-offs between food security and the preservation of biodiversity. The results are published in Nature Communications. »
With climate change, humanity is facing one of its greatest challenges ever. Helmholtz has been making major scientific contributions in this area for many years. Now it is further expanding its focus on this field of research by establishing the Helmholtz Climate Initiative.»
Nature lists the top 10 institutions for Earth and environmental Sciences. These 10 institutions were the largest contributors to papers in Earth and environmental sciences published in 82 leading journals in 2018.»
On 30 May, an international team of researchers from the MICRO-FATE project coordinated by UFZ environmental chemist Annika Jahnke is setting out from Vancouver (Canada) on a five-week expedition across the Pacific Ocean on the research vessel "Sonne".»
Maintaining regional soil quality for a biobased economy
