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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 chairing ...

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 ...

The map was still full of blank spots. Polar researchers have known for some time now that rising temperatures in the Arctic can cause the soil to thaw, transforming entire landscapes; yet it remained unclear exactly where, and to what degree, these ...

If carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and thereby in the ocean continue to rise, this could favour the mass development of toxic algae, with far-reaching consequences for the pelagic food web. This was discovered during a long-term experiment ...

Ressourceneffizienz vor der Marktreife: Ihre Technologien diskutierten Forschungsteams auf der r+Impuls-Statuskonferenz.

Already 6.000 years ago hu­mans in­ter­vened in nature in such a way that the ve­get­a­tion changed. This is the res­ult of a study by Dr. Mahyar Mo­htadi from MARUM – Cen­ter for Mar­ine ...

Environmental researchers at the IOW have developed a novel mobile device for recording microplastics in surface waters. They call it the “Rocket”, a design with which depending on the amount of suspended matter in the water up to 60 litres per minute can ...

The first annual meeting of the project RIESGOS takes place from 16 to 17 October 2018. For almost a year the RIESGOS team has been working on research and development of scientific methods to better understand complex interactions in the context ...

Outstanding green visionaries from all over the world meet Germany´s sustainability research elite on a two-week science tour in October.

The German and French ministries of research, BMBF and MESRI, are continuing their successful cooperation in research and development. The latest call is aimed at strengthening the French-German cooperation in energy research as well as the stimulation of ...

The IPZ website has recently been launched. The site offers an insight into current topics, announcements and best practice examples of sustainable urban development and its research.