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German climate consortium gives recommendations in view of the foreseeable failure to limiting global warming to 1.5°C Although the 1.5°C target is no longer achievable, efforts should continue to be made to limit global warming in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

Whether on forest floors, in bogs, in the joints of pavements or even in inhospitable regions such as Antarctica - mosses grow almost everywhere.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: Many people are currently preparing their gardens for winter: according to the gARTENreich project, there are 16.6 million private gardens in Germany.

World climate conference: Prof. Lisa Schipper from the University of Bonn urges fairness in the journal "Science" The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku (Azerbaijan) from November 11 to 22, 2024 will also address the sensitive issue of financing adaptation strategies.

Showing the way to decarbonization of energy-intensive industries with digital tools The Thuringian joint projects ZO.RRO II KMU & ZO.RRO 2 for Glass Industry are working on innovative

A study coordinated by Humboldt-Universität has analysed so-called overshoot scenarios and warns of their consequences for the climate and the environment.

Researchers from Bonn show which procedure reduces the amount of anesthetic discarded Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia.

Bonn researchers show which procedure reduces the waste of the anesthetic Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia. In order to maintain anesthesia, total intravenous anesthesia is usually followed by a continuous infusion of the drug via a separate syringe pump. This is not entirely sustainable: propofol produces around 45 percent of the drug waste in the operating room and a quarter of the drug remains unused.

First cross-national analysis of international investments in nature conservation shows how funds can be used more efficiently to protect tropical forests.

With five action areas, several dozen objectives and measures, and well over 250 people involved in its creation, the new Strategy Paper on Sustainability is set to embed the issue even more firmly across the University of Bonn.

Climate researcher Prof. Lisa Schipper explains in the Nature Climate Change commentary why science also needs emotions "It's really difficult and depressing to keep reading and researching ab

Physicist Oliver Kamps talks about artificial intelligence and sustainability / "Campus Earth" on November 8 Christina Hoppenbrock took this occasion to ask physicist Dr. Oliver Kamps how arti

More than half of the natural habitat types in Germany are in an ecologically unfavorable state, and more valuable habitat areas are disappearing every day.

In a recent study, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena have shown how they can non-invasively and non-destructively

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changed environmental conditions. How they do so is crucial.

The number of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing worldwide. The use of EVs can play an important role in achieving zero-emission goals.

Trash separation systems with a uniform look, fewer waste bins in lecture halls and offices, better communication-2023 saw the University of Bonn launch a new waste management system.

News from Leipzig University has today (22 August 2024) submitted two detailed full proposals for Clusters of Excellence.

Interdisciplinary Research Team Aims to Use Recycled Phosphate for Lithium-ion Batteries To recover phosphate from existing sources such as wastewater or farm manure and reuse it in lithium-ion batte

Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Kassel have evaluated an initiative run by Studierendenwerk Bonn in a canteen What effect does a vegan/vegetarian month have on a canteen? For this experiment, the Studierendenwerk Bonn sought scientific support from researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Kassel.

Study provides universities in Münster a roadmap to successful change Universities are places where students are trained in sustainability.

Rewetting peatlands: Sensor technology and underground radio communication to protect climate and health In order to achieve the climate protection targets in Germany, it is not only necessary to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector, industry and transportation.

A University of Bonn geologist on board a polar research vessel will be studying the effects of climate change on ice and sea level The British polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough set sa

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: The biopolymer lignin is found in large quantities in trees.

How can artificial intelligence (AI) contribute to deciphering, describing and naming biodiversity, i.e. the diversity of life on our planet, by using taxonomic methods faster than these species become extinct - An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the TU Ilmenau has investigated this question and published the results in the renowned journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.