Although more than half of the world’s rivers have been altered by human activity and climate change, the floodplain ecosystems along the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan remain largely untouched.
FAU chemists conduct research into novel approach of using an organic module for storing solar energy
The Indian subcontinent is likely to experience an increasing number of extreme weather events in future. The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is therefore likely to become a climate change hotspot, which could have severe consequences for several hun-dred million people. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by re-searchers from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Augsburg, which has been published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.
Icefields in South America are larger than all glaciers in the European Alps together
Accurate climate data is immensely important for climate change predictions and modeling. Using a unique climate data set of 170 stations, mainly from the mountains of Tanzania including Kilimanjaro, Dr. Andreas Hemp, researcher at the Chair of Plant Systematics at the University of Bayreuth, shows that the commonly used data sets are inaccurate. Hemp shows which data is more suitable in a recent publication in the journal PLOS ONE.
In one in eight ski resorts, the natural snow cover could disappear completely before the end of this century. This is the conclusion reached by Dr. Veronika Mitterwallner from the University of Bayreuth in a study of the world's seven largest mountain regions, which has now been published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
How do market integration and climate change affect social cohesion? Dr Gianluca Grimalda, known as the scientist who refuses to fly, is investigating this question through field experiments in Papua New Guinea. He has been awarded a fellowship at the Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS), where he will analyse the data collected during his fieldwork.
A study has been carried out at the University of Bayreuth that shows a way to measure the CO2 footprint of companies more accurately. The results of this research can help commercial enterprises to drive forward CO2 savings in the right places. A white paper has now been published in collaboration with the DFGE - Institute for Energy and Ecology.
The Bayreuth plant ecologists Prof Dr Steven Higgins and Dr Timo Conradi argue in favour of interpreting the coming climatic changes from the perspective of plants in order to better assess the risks of climate change for ecosystems. If information on the physiological reactions of plant species to changing temperatures, soil water content and atmospheric CO2 concentrations is taken into account, the consequences of climate change for ecosystems can be better predicted. They report this in a recent article in the scientific journal "Nature Ecology & Evolution".
The batteries of the future must be both powerful and sustainable. A new joint project, coordinated by the University of Würzburg, aims to make sodium-ion batteries ready to fulfill for these requirements. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the project with more than two million euros. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Helmholtz Institute Ulm and the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Würzburg / Fraunhofer R&D Center for Electromobility FZEB are also involved.
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