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Researchers from Leipzig University will present an interactive digital cube that can visualise climate data from anywhere in the world in space and time at the Building Bridges for the Next Generations conference on 16 May. As a freely accessible website, LexCube makes terabytes of data available to everyone.

Increasing heat and drought are changing forests faster than expected. Researchers at the University of Würzburg want to keep a better eye on these dynamics.

Reading time 3 min. Digitalization on the rise Technological progress has always changed working conditions in agriculture.

BMBF funds research into resource-efficient cultivation on the Klein-Altendorf campus of the University of Bonn Research for more sustainable crop production: A new type of research greenhouse is now being built at the University of Bonn's Klein-Altendorf campus.

The transformation of the economy towards sustainability proceeds apace. Eighty-four percent of those responsible for sustainability at a company in the real economy say that the topic has become -more- or -much more important.

Meat production causes climate-harming CO2 emissions. Furthermore, many animals suffer under livestock conditions. A meat tax could lower consumption and the money could be used, for example, to improve conditions. A new study by Grischa Perino and Henrike Schwickert from Universität Hamburg reveals how the population responds to this idea.

"Flora Incognita," Germany's most popular plant identification app, has received new artificial intelligence - as a result, the number of plant species that can be determined has tripled: Around 16,000 species can now be identified worldwide. In addition, the app, which is now available in 20 languages, now also works in offline mode, and its digital educational offering includes a wealth of new information, such as improved distribution maps of many species.

Can flower strips combined with hedges improve biodiversity in intensively used agricultural areas? This is what a team from the University of Würzburg is investigating with project partners from four EU countries. The problem is well known: Worldwide, the quantity and diversity of insects are declining.

Reading time 7 min. Interview with Werner Lang, new Vice President Sustainable Transformation Being a role model for sustainable social change - that is the goal of TUM.

The Technische Universität Ilmenau is involved in a major european project that is making air transport fit for a sustainable and climate-neutral future.

UNESCO Chair Mariele Evers takes a look back at the UN Water Conference The UN Water Conference, held at the United Nations headquarters in New York March 22-24, was attended by Mariele Evers, who is the UNESCO Chair for Human-Water Systems at the University of Bonn Department of Geography.

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In July 2021, devastating floods caused by heavy rainfall occurred in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, and to some extent also in Saxony and Bavaria, with more than 180 fatalities.

Petra Olschowski learns about sustainability in research and day-to-day operations On February 16, 2023, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, Research and the Arts, Petra Olschowski, visited the University of Freiburg.

International research team emphasises importance of diversity, equity and inclusion The tropics hold most of the planet's biodiversity.

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new, central study released by Universität Hamburg's Cluster of Excellence -Climate, Climatic Change, and Society- (CLICCS).

Grafting and mobile CRISPR for genome editing in plants A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool - aka "genetic scissors" - is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signalling a methodology change. The discovery that was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Biotechnology could simplify and speed up the development of novel, genetically stable commercial crop varieties by combining grafting with a 'mobile' CRISPR tool.