This open access book explores two previously separate strands of research: socio-technical imaginaries, and the production and contestation of space. It addresses the controversial role of...

Svenja McGrath and Benno Fladvad research military practice at the intersection of local livelihoods and state sovereignty. Svenja is currently on her first research visit to Canada.

Focusing on the Canadian...

Butterflies are widely considered to be a valuable 'early warning system' for environmental changes, as they react rapidly and pronouncedly to changes in their environment, such as climate change. In an international meta-study published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers investigated 1,758 butterfly...

This July the 2nd field campaign of the Arctic expedition to Kilpisjärvi, Finland, started. Friederike Neiske and Carolin Frauhammer investigated potential greenhouse gas sinks as well as impacts of abrupt permafrost thaw on greenhouse gas fluxes as part of the projects COLDSPOT und PeTCaT. Therefore, the team conducted...

As part of the KERMIT project, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in fruit growing, the FNK team conducted a survey of German fruit growers. The survey focused on three main questions: (1) whether respondents had been approached by stakeholders to provide a carbon footprint; (2) whether they had prepared...

Archive of the iron/oxygen cycle: This black shale from the Late Devonian, a period within the Paleozoic, is a form of sedimentary rock that reflects paleo-environmental conditions.

More iron on the seafloor means less oxygen in the ocean and atmosphere – or at least, that has long been a common assumption in the...