The new Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) not only shows the drastic consequences of climate change for nature and people, but also the adaptations that need to…
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Switching to modern cooking fuels can improve the lives of women in the global South and protect the climate at the same time - that's what a study by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate…
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The increased occurrence of extreme weather events due to climate change and the associated natural disasters primarily affect people in countries of the global south.
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In the next 10 to 20 years, researchers expect serious crop losses for the world's most important food crops such as wheat and maize - decades earlier than previously thought.
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Switching to modern cooking fuels like gas or to electricity can improve the well-being of women in the global South, and eventually be connected to falling birth rates, a new study by researchers…
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A recent report by the European Union's Copernicus climate change service shows: 2021 was one of the seven warmest years globally since weather records began.
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A recent study shows that the number of birds in the European Union has been declining rapidly since 1980. More than 600 million animals have disappeared since then.
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Biodiversity is the engine of our ecosystems - according to scientists from the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Würzburg. According to current research, the higher the…
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Farming without deforestation and slash-and-burn? It really does work - as can be seen in our project in Madagascar. Here, we use the method of dynamic agroforestry.
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