15.02.2017 News
unspecific unspecific Environmental technology
Bank backs crowdfunding platform
GLS, a bank specialising in sustainable investments, has set up a crowd-investing platform for businesses and projects.
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20.04.2017 Success story
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
More sugar in the beet
Where does the sugar in the sugar beet actually come from? Scientists from research and industry looked into this question in order to increase yields from sugar beet.
19.04.2017 News
unspecific Microorganisms Biodiversity
CRISPR discoverer gets own research institute
Emmanuelle Charpentier discovered the revolutionary genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas. Now she will head her own Max-Planck research unit in Berlin.
17.04.2017 News
Food Plants Agriculture sciences
Predicting the weather
Extreme weather occurrences are endangering harvest yields worldwide. To enable more precise weather forecasts a new Land-Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (LAFO) will be established.
27.04.2017 Success story
Food Plants Agriculture sciences
The barley genome in HD quality
Aided by new sequencing technologies, Nils Stein and his team of plant geneticists have succeeded in decoding all seven chromosomes of the barley genome far quicker than was originally planned. In the process, they have greatly added to the genome map of this important agricultural crop.
25.04.2017 News
Food Animals Biodiversity
Where do frog legs come from?
Berlin-based researcher establish new analysis of origin for frog legs. The specific pattern of isotopes within each animal can tell, whether they indeed stem from sustainable farms.
27.04.2017 News
Food Plants Agriculture sciences
Wineries will have to move due to extreme weather
Global climate change is costing the wine industry billions of dollars each year. An international team of researchers established a “Global Risk Index for Wine Regions”.
28.04.2017 News
unspecific Microorganisms Agriculture sciences
DFG is funding genome editing and microbiota
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding 17 new Priority Programmes with a total of €100 million. Three of the Life Science projects are focused on bio-based economy.
03.05.2017 News
Automobile unspecific Agriculture sciences
Bio-based and digitalized – Hannover Messe 2017
Industry 4.0 via digitalization spanning robots and bio-based economy – that is the main message of the Hannover Messe 2017.
04.05.2017 News
Food Plants Agriculture sciences
“LivingLand” initiative closes with great support
More than 250,000 Europeans voiced their support for a change in the agriculture industry towards sustainable farming policies across Europe.
05.05.2017 News
Automobile unspecific Energy technologies
Bioethanol increases market shares
The consumption of bioethanol as part of the petrol market has increased slightly in Germany. In 2016 1.2 million tonnes of bio-based ethanol has been added to fuels.
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unspecific unspecific Biodiversity
What plastic does to our waters
What are the effects of plastic waste on ecosystems? That is the question that biologist Carolin Völker and her colleague Johanna Kramm are trying to answer with their projects in their junior research group ‘PlastX’.
10.05.2017 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Environmental technology
Groundbreaking microplastic paper retracted
A body of research has shown the negative consequences of microplastics for aqueous life. Now, a seminal paper that had demonstrated behavioural changes in fish was retracted.
10.05.2017 News
Food Plants Agriculture sciences
Global cultivation of GMO is growing
The global cultivation area of GMO crops is growing, but Europe and especially Germany remain sceptical regarding the usage of GMOs.
10.04.2017 Studies and statistics
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Biopolymers (2017) – Facts and Statistics
The study published by the Institute for Bioplastics and Bio-Compounds (IfBB) provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the bioplastics sector.
19.04.2017 News
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March for Science reaches Berlin
A global event for the freedom of science taking place on April 22. In Germany demonstrations are planned at 20 sites - from Berlin to Heligoland.
28.11.2025 News
Chemistry Waste Chemistry
Hiking pole made from natural fibres
Researchers at the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf (DITF) are working with partners to demonstrate, using a hiking pole, that natural materials can also meet the high demands of outdoor use.
17.02.2017 News
Food Plants Agriculture sciences
Calls for more research into organic farming
Organic farming is booming, yet there is still too little applied research being performed in this area, criticise experts. That will soon change.
28.02.2017 Success story
Chemistry Animals Biotechnology/Systems biology
Using chitin to strengthen textiles
The research cooperation “ChitoTex” is developing a procedure to utilize the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens as a sustainable source for chitin, which can be used to coat textile fibers.
01.03.2017 News
Automobile Microorganisms Biodiversity
Mapping ocean floors in 3D
The muli-million-dollar global XPRIZE competition to explore and map the ocean floors has reached its semi-finals. Still on board is the German team "Arggonauts".