Earth and Environment - Environment
Water is one of the essential resources of all life. Ensuring that all people have access to clean drinking water and safeguarding its quality is not just a task for politicians. Scientists like Prof. Pu Li, head of the Process Optimization Group at the TU Ilmenau, also make an important contribution to our water supply with their research.
Temperature influences how badly pesticides affect bees' behaviour, suggesting uncertain impacts under climate change, according to a new study.
The abolition of daylight saving time is a frequently - and hotly - debated topic. Often, only the aspect of electricity consumption due to artificial lighting is considered. In a new study, researchers have analyzed whether daylight saving time also has an impact on the energy needed to heat and cool office buildings, and what role climate change might play in this. The results should delight supporters of daylight saving time.
"If you pick a spot in, say, a rainforest, and count the number of different species of lizards within 15 metres and you come up with a number," says Luke Mahler, "What determines that number?" Mahler is an assistant professor in the University of Toronto's department of ecology and evolutionary biology in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
Medicine & Science Climate protection and sustainability are among the major issues of the future. The concerns are also increasingly coming to the fore in the health sector. Anaesthesia, and intensive care in particular, contribute to greenhouse gas emissions through the use of pollutants such as anaesthetic gases and equipment such as heart-lung machines, which have a high energy consumption.
It was only the beginning of March, but the pollen count Naresh Kumar measured with one of his aerosol samplers came in at more than 1,500 grains per cubic meter of air. "Extremely high for this time of year, and it wasn't even the official start of spring,” said the professor of public health sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Parasite treatments and preventatives we put on our pets are finding their way into UK waters in concentrations that are toxic to aquatic species.
A study by researchers at ETH Zurich shows for the first time how a relaxation of Swiss spatial planning policy would affect the locations of wind turbines. If the aim is to have as few wind turbines as possible in the Alps and in Switzerland in general, it would be worth considering using windy agricultural areas on the western Swiss Plateau.
Selected Jobs
Postdoc: Effect of grazing on soil carbon storage Agroscope, 8046 Zürich-Affoltern ZH
Professeure HES assistante - Professeur HES assistant avec pré-titularisation conditionnelle dans les domaines de la Santé des plantes et Ressources génétiques... HES-SO Genève, HEPIA site Lullier, 150 route de Presinge, 1254 Jussy / HEPIA site Genève, 4 rue de la Prairie, 1202 Genève
PostDoc ’Regional Modelling of Agricultural N2O Emissions’ Agroscope, Zurich
LeiterIn Forum Biodiversität Schweiz 80-100% Akademie der Naturwissenschaften (SCNAT), Bern
Research Fellow in Continuous Casting Modelling for Sustainable Manufacturing Cranfield University
PhD: Conceptual design of sustainable biotechnological processes Delft University of Technology
PhD Position: Qualitative study on relational values of birdwatchers University of Zurich
Offre de thèse en catalyse supramoléculaire: Oxydation Bioinspirée du Méthane (H/F) CNRS, Marseille
Links - Environment
- Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, DWA
- Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- ARL - Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association
- Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Rostock University (IAP)
- Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo)
- Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
- Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ)
- Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine
- Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe (IVW)
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)
- Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
- Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (MfN)
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- Senckenberg Society for Nature Research - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN)
- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
- Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum DBFZ
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute
University of Sussex named number one in the world for Development Studies for seventh consecutive year
University of Freiburg establishes Eva Mayr-Stihl Chair for Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials Systems
Increase homegrown fruit and veg and add £0.5bn to the economy say scientists – as we reel from supermarket shortages
University of Toronto partners with Vale Energy Transition Metals to accelerate sustainable mining solutions

Major grant will help University of Waterloo build a sustainable aeronautics sector
University of Toronto Faculty of Law event focuses on law and policy amid climate change

'Antisocial' damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers - and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown
A new chip for decoding data transmissions demonstrates record-breaking energy efficiency
