Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

The work of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ covers both basic research and applied research.

Can the use of large herbivores can be an effective means to prevent and mitigate wildfires?

Have we reached a tipping point for global plastic pollution?

New smartphone perspectives for rapid detection of biodiversity changes

Critical Information Needed in Fight to Save Wildlife

An international group of top biologists led by UConn ecologist Mark Urban is calling for a coordinated effort to gather important species information that is urgently needed to improve predictions for the impact of climate change on future biodiversity. We need to pull on our boots, grab our binoculars, and go back into the field

Critical Information Needed in Fight to Save Wildlife

Renewable planetary resources reach their limits

Humanity should use planetary resources with care Can the world continue expanding its use of renewable resources at an increasing rate? Most likely not. Using a data set of over 25 resources researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Yale University and Michigan State University demonstrate that several key resources have recently passed,

Renewable planetary resources reach their limits

The potential of straw for the energy mix has been underestimated

Straw from agriculture could play an important role in the future energy mix for Germany. Up until now it has been underutilised as a biomass residue and waste material. These were the conclusions of a study conducted by the TLL (Thueringian regional institute for agriculture), the DBFZ (German biomass research center) and the Helmholtz Center

The potential of straw for the energy mix has been underestimated

Luminous Bacterial Proteins Detect Chemicals in Water

This is the concept: If the analyzed sample shines red, then the water is ‘clean;’ While residual medications don’t belong in the water, trace metals from industrial process waters handled by the recycling industry are, in contrast, valuable resources. Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have developed a simple color sensor principle which facilitates the

Luminous Bacterial Proteins Detect Chemicals in Water

Breast cancer breakthrough is a tribute to our scientists

TALKING of heroes, Victorian scientists have done it again with another major breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer. As the Sunday Herald Sun reports on page 7 today, a team from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has announced it is working on a type of vaccine that “mops” up breast cancer cells left after radiation treatment.

Breast cancer breakthrough is a tribute to our scientists

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Drilling campaign reaches a depth of 808 meters in the Antarctic ice sheet
In Antarctica, the second drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA—Oldest Ice project, at the remote field site Little Dome C, has been successfully completed. This project is an unprecedented challenge ...
Beyond EPICA: Reached a depth of 808 meters in the Antarctic ice sheet
The second drilling campaign of Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice has been successfully completed. The international research project is funded by the European Commission with 11 million euros and coordinated ...
Global warming reaches central Greenland
In a study now published in Nature, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) present clear evidence that effects of global warming have ...
Researchers from Würzburg and the U.S. discover new type of CRISPR gene scissors
The institute is a site of the Braunschweig Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in cooperation with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) in Würzburg. Beisel initiated the current study ...
“An ideal addition to the Helmholtz Association”
Under the terms of this agreement, the Institute will become a part of the Helmholtz Association’s “Earth and Environment ... the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre ...

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Earth’s oldest environmental clean-up took place 400 million years ago, research revealed
Earth’s oldest environmental clean-up took place 400 million years ago, research revealed. The discovery was made ... which we analysed at the Aberdeen Centre for Electron Microscopy, Analysis ...
Researchers from Würzburg and the U.S. discover new type of CRISPR gene scissors
Component of bacterial immune defense paralyzes infected cells and could advance molecular biology diagnostics It is an unexpected discovery ... Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI ...
Researchers from Würzburg and the U.S. discover new type of CRISPR gene scissors
"Considering how well different nucleases have been translated into new and improved technologies, any discovery ... Research (HIRI). The institute is a site of the Braunschweig Helmholtz Centre ...
“An ideal addition to the Helmholtz Association”
As of 1 January 2023, the IASS has been renamed as the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) and embedded into the administrative structures of Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German ...
Drug Discovery News and Research
The January 2023 issue of SLAS Discovery contains a collection of four full-length articles and one technical brief covering cancer research, high-throughput screening (HTS) assay development and ...