Deriving climate consequences with data from plant app
With the help of a newly developed algorithm, Leipzig researchers can use data from the plant identification app Flora Incognita to determine the effects of climate change on the plant world.
Permaculture: Better soils, more biodiversity
Permaculture has the potential to combine agriculture, environmental protection and nature conservation. This is the conclusion of a study involving the Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau.
Sustainable colours with iridescent bacteria
A research team from the Jena Cluster of Excellence ‘Balance of the Microverse’ has decoded the mechanism that enables some bacterial strains to reflect light and form colours in a similar way to butterfly wings.
Stuttgart sets its own bioeconomy strategy
The state capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, is the first city in Germany to present a municipal bioeconomy strategy with 22 specific measures to drive forward the transition to a bio-based future.
Turning CO2 from industrial emissions into a platform chemical
Using bacteria from bovine rumen, researchers led by the chemical company BASF want to produce the platform chemical fumaric acid from industrial emissions from chemical production.
