Drinking water is a precious commodity and is all too often taken for granted. Yet the war for water has long since begun. Freshwater is essential for our survival, but growing demand for water, climate …
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War over water – can we prevent it?
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Bioplastics from Mexico: Changing the world with agave fibres.
Reportage by Paula Pröve, cover illustration Susanne Gold It started as a project for the university, the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. The task: integrate a natural fibre into any material. That …
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Planet Earth and its Ruler: Is the Curtain Closing?
Cover photo Vivian Haddad /Text Susanne Gold Sad high – Humans are outcompeting nature for the first time. Everything we humans produce is referred to as “anthropogenic material” by experts. For the first time, there …
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He who is committed to the diversity of living things. Who is Gerald Hüther?
Professor Gerald Hüther is a neurobiologist and chairman of the Academy for Potential Development. After studying biology, he completed a research degree and doctorate at the University of Leipzig. He completed his habilitation at the …
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Milking the blue cow
This historical expression originates from the west coast of Denmark and refers to the fact of living on the flotsam of the sea. After every major storm, the coastal dwellers once climbed over the sandy …
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Climate change, population growth and scarcity of resources – what options do we have to secure our existence?
We have only one planet – our Earth! Mathematically one could therefore say that we live in a “closed system”. There are therefore only limited options for climate protection and for securing our existence on …
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Fishing 4.0: The digital fisherman for man and sea
Feeding the growing world population is one of the most burning issues of the future. Global population growth is challenging the food industry in an unprecedented way. While on the one hand the yields of …