Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

Antje Boetius from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen always has multiple objectives in her sights: from discovery and precautionary research to technological development and scientific communication. more

A new dead zone in the Indian Ocean could impact future marine nutrient balance more

Tobias Erb discusses a synthetic metabolic pathway that fixes carbon dioxide and synthetic biology more

Measurements reveal the relationship between individual CO₂ emissions and the Arctic's shrinking summer sea ice more

In the Amazon region, downdrafts bring aerosol particles from higher altitudes to the atmospheric layer where clouds form. more

A biochemical mechanism controls which nanostructures are formed in calcite-forming microorganisms more

Anthropogenic climate change contributes to fanning of the West African monsoon by moisture from the Mediterranean more

Bacteria probably formed symbioses with protists early in evolution more

There have not been 'pristine' landscapes for several thousands of years more

Walter Kälin is retired Professor of Public Law at the University of Bern. His interest in human rights issues is focused mainly on migration and refugees. Among other things, he acts as Representative of the UN Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and Envoy of the Chairmanship of the Nansen Initiative on cross-border displacement. We talked with him about the influence of climate change on migration and the possible means of preventing climate change-induced displacement. more