Due to ocean warming, the corals on the Great Barrier Reef could die. Scientists therefore want to make the corals more resistant to environmental influences.
30. December 2018
Category: Nature/Environment
20. March 2018
Flood: Looking for possible causes
How floods make citizens and local authorities think differently
More and more often, floods occur away from designated floodplains. In the Harz Mountains in Germany, a citizens’ initiative wants to fight not only the floods but also their causes.
24. October 2016
Less waste with “Cradle to Cradle
At some point, everything ends up in the trash…. That should be different with products that are manufactured according to the Cradle to Cradle principle. All their components should be able to be completely returned to material cycles. Established by American architect William McDonough and German chemist Michael Braungart.
8. September 2016
The Carl Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin has reopened
After two years of renovation and modernisation, the Grand Planetarium offers modern science theatre: with 360-degree digital technology and the second most beautiful starry sky in the world. Projections on other fields of science will also be shown, be it geology, biology or environmental technology. In addition, lectures, music and theatre performances are to take place in the dome hall.
8. February 2016
Stone paper: an eco friendly alternative
Conventional paper has a devastating eco-balance – unlike stone paper: no trees have to be felled and no drinking water consumed for its production. Stone paper can also be recycled as often as desired. An alternative to wood and even to petroleum, it could also replace plastic bags.
In Berlin, geoecologists at Freie Universität are researching as part of a model project how organic waste from households and gardens could be used to add nutrients to soils. At the city’s Botanical Garden, a pyrolysis plant turns dead plant parts into fertilizer for the flower beds and heat for the greenhouses.
5. December 2014
International Year of Soils
Soils are far more important for humans and the environment than they are given credit for. Not only are they an important resource in the fight against climate change – they also form the basis for more than 90 percent of the food produced worldwide.
Gardening in the middle of the city on marginal land that is not used for other purposes is a trend. The Chelsea Fringe Festival is a kind of garden show of such alternatives. It was launched as a counterpoint to the traditional Chelsea Flower Show in London.
14. April 2014
Rachel Carson: the mother of all ecos
The biologist is still considered a pioneer not only of the American environmental movement. Her book “Silent Spring” about the effects of pesticides on our ecosystems led to the ban of the insecticide DDT.