Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

The birds have variable migration strategies more

Findings on how a catalyst converts methane into ethene could help prevent the flaring of natural gas more

Birds risk starvation of their chicks if they start breeding early due to climate change more

The Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is being awarded the Prize in the field of Earth System Dynamics more

Tobacco hawkmoths are not attracted to flower odors when ozone levels are high; however, the moths are able to learn that odors modified by ozone may offer a reward, that is, nectar more

The plant parasite eavesdrops on its host and uses the host’s mobile floral stimulus for timing its own flowering more

An interview with Raquel Sirotti, doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute For European Legal History, about the environmental policies of the Bolsonaro government more

The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies the mustard oil bomb in plants of the cabbage family more

A new study shows that the severe impact of the summer drought that hit Europe in 2018 was partly due to the spring heatwave that preceded it. This triggered an early and rapid plant growth, depleting soil moisture more

Jana Wäldchen has played a key role in developing the plant identification app, Flora Incognita. We discussed with her how being able to identify different plants contributes to species diversity, which plant species are particularly under threat and how non-native species are suppressing local plants more