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published by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene. While there is recognition in both sc...

We're happy to be able to present our newly designed icons for the workshops and the Big Questions! The uni design team did a wonderful job engaging with the workshop topics. Each workshop now has its individual icon that makes it stand out. Curious? Then click here :)

"I never dreamed of being a scientist. Growing up, I never even gave a thought of what scientists did or what they looked like. Actually, until a few years ago, if you had told me to picture a scientist, the first thing that would have come to mind would be one of the evil scientists in animated f...

"The fight against global warming and for sustainable development can only be successful if humanity now thinks together about climate protection, biodiversity and social justice and takes into account their interactions on an equal footing in all political decisions – global, national and regional...

We are pleased that we can further increase the presence of PaleoSynthesis. We recently got our own Facebook account and will no longer post through the Institute's. Additionally, we are now also there for you via Instagram. Follow us on: @PaleoSynthesisProject

PhD candidate Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Wolfgang Kiessling, with colleagues, published a study on the extinction risk of corals using artificial intelligence. An article is published in 'Global Ecology and Biogeography' and the university has published an interview with N. Raja-Schoob and W. Kiessl...

"Islands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities, and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological functions. By analyzing 27 representative fossil pollen sequences encompassing the past 5000 years from islands globally, ...

"Many ecological and evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to explain the latitudinal diversity gradient, i.e. the increase in species richness from the poles to the tropics. Among the evolutionary hypotheses, the ‘out of the tropics’ (OTT) hypothesis has received considerable attention. The O...

"Prof. Wolfgang Kiessling, Chair of Paleobiology, and Tasnuva Ming Khan, also from the field of Paleobiology, together with scientists from South Africa, England, Brazil, Norway, Trinidad and India, have succeeded in finding that a third of all endemic species living in rural areas are threatened t...

Why are more and more species becoming extinct? What can we learn from the species extinctions of the geological past? And how can we use the findings from paleontology and biology to slow down, or better still reverse, the species decline? These questions are addressed by a small online symposium ...