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Wetlands, particularly peatlands, are among the Earth’s most important carbon sinks. By 2030, EU Member States must restore at least 30 per cent of their degraded wetlands. For the EU to achieve its restoration targets, it needs reliable information on which areas offer the greatest potential for…

A new international study published in Ambio highlights nine “bright spots” from around the world that demonstrate how peatland conservation, rewetting, and restoration can succeed. The examples range from community-led restoration initiatives and large-scale rewetting programmes to innovative forms…

During a cabinet meeting between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s State Government and representatives from the Federal Government at the Representation of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Berlin on 7 July 2026, Federal Minister for the Environment Carsten Schneider and Minister-President Manuela…

It was long considered an established fact that bats only mate in autumn. An international study led by the University of Greifswald, now published in the journal Mammalian Biology, provides new findings that suggest that this assumption may not be correct. When investigating the common noctule…

Prof. Dr. Kilian Heck, an art historian at the University of Greifswald, was awarded the Borys Voznytskyi Medal by the city of Lviv in recognition of his efforts to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage. In 2022, he founded the Ukraine Art Aid Center (UAAC) together with the art historians Dr. Olena…

Why is it rare for dangerous blood clots to form in our blood? What happens if this safety mechanism fails? An international team of researchers involving the University of Greifswald has taken a major step towards finding the answer to this central medical question. The results were published…

People living in Germany have more confidence in themselves today than 20 years ago. They have more faith in their ability to influence their own lives and key life events. This has now been shown in a long-term study conducted by Dr. Theresa M. Entringer from the University of Greifswald and…

An Australian spider has developed a hunting technique that is unique to the animal kingdom. It uses the aggression of its prey to trigger a high-performing snare – shooting ants into its web with enormous force. These are the findings of a joint team of researchers from the University of Greifswald…

Petrus Wickerau’s twenty-five words are among the oldest surviving texts written in Old Prussian. When the manuscript was discovered and published in 2013, Baltic scholars hailed it as a sensation. Source material on Old Prussian is scarce; every new find has a great significance. The…

A research team belonging to the University of Greifswald’s Research Training Group RTG-PRO “Proteases in pathogen and host: importance in infection and inflammation” has discovered a new mechanism with which bacterial pathogens adjust their activity to the metabolism of infected host cells.…