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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Offshore Wind’s Turbulent Future
The realization that turbulence created by deepwater wind turbines could upset the spring phytoplankton bloom has researchers warning the rapidly emerging industry to proceed with caution.
Plastic-eating bacteria could help scientists fight pollution, new study claims
Plastic-munching bacteria could help save the planet, scientists have claimed. Plastic pollution releases unnatural chemicals into lakes, devastating local ecosystems. But according to a new study of ...
Research warns of distress to residents due to inequitable access to water
Recent studies by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany, and Mashal, Pune, showed that in informal settlements many household members, usually women, spend several hours a ...
WaterTalk: Extreme gas pressures in lakes: from the "killer" Lake Nyos (Cameroon) to Guadiana Pit Lake (Spain) and Lake Kivu (Rwanda and DR Congo)
Part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Bertram Boehrer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany, will present.
150 southern fin whales observed feeding together
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. (2022, July 7). 150 southern fin whales observed feeding together: For the first time since the ban on whaling ...

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Plastic-eating bacteria could help scientists fight pollution, new study claims
Plastic-munching bacteria could help save the planet, scientists have claimed. Plastic pollution releases unnatural chemicals into lakes, devastating local ecosystems. But according to a new study of ...
EOC supports EO-Lab with national earth observation data
In addition to the successful development of the site over the past 30 years, the event focused on current projects from maritime security and space weather research and the German ... Despite strict ...
UCD researchers join €7.5m EU project for sustainable mining
UCD researchers from iCRAG, the SFI research centre in applied geosciences based ... The project is hosted by the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden ...
Peer-Reviewed Publication
A new discovery from Tel Aviv University may provide a key to a great scientific enigma: How does the awake brain transform sensory input into a conscious experience? The groundbreaking study ...
Developing bacterial PROTACs
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) eliminate targeted proteins by hijacking the eukaryotic ubiquitin–proteasome system. Now, Morreale et al. have developed BacPROTACs, expanding this ...