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The global loss of wetlands is smaller than previously assumed according to the recently published study “Extensive global wetland loss over the last three centuries.” This has now (February 2023) been published in the scientific journal Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05572-6). Peatland researchers…

Dr. Lasisi Adeiza Isiaka has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Georg Forster research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers. For the next two years, he will be conducting research as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Greifswald’s Chair of English Linguistics. Professor Dr.…

Biochemists from the Universities of Greifswald and Wuhan (China) as well as the Helmholtz Institute Berlin have developed a new concept that makes it possible to create custom-made highly selective biocatalysts suitable for the synthesis of important intermediate stages of drugs. This research…

Like its famous relative Brachiosaurus, Europasaurus holgeri is a long-necked, herbivorous and quadrupedal dinosaur. Both genera are sauropods and lived in the Jurassic. In contrast to its 15 m-tall relative from the North American mainland (giraffes are around 5 m tall), Europasaurus from Germany…

Sharm el-Sheikh/Greifswald A first comprehensive assessment of global peatlands will be presented in an official side event "State of the World's Peatlands – Global Peatlands Assessment: Evidence for action toward peatlands conservation" at the World Climate Summit COP27 on 17 November 2022. The…

The cross-border collaboration of medical emergency services can save lives if they are able to communicate with one another. This conclusion is drawn from the results of the EU-funded project “Multi-Level Approaches to Cross-Border Communication and Collaboration in Emergency Medicine” (GeKoM).…

In a recent study, an international team of researchers led by Prof. Agnes Flöel at University Medicine Greifswald has gained new insights into the role of the polyamine spermidine in brain ageing. The study, published on 2 November in the Journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the…

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has granted a third phase of funding for the Research Unit FOR 2406 ‘Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilization’ (POMPU). Scientists from Greifswald and Bremen belonging to the research unit will work together on an interdisciplinary basis and in…

The research project "(Un)Disciplined: Pluralizing Ukrainian Studies - Understanding the War in Ukraine" (UNDIPUS) was originally aimed at understanding the “stalemate conflict" in the Donbas. Among other things, the project will examine the long run-up to the war, and the cultural dimensions and…

A month ago, the first digital herbarium specimens from the National Herbarium of Uzbekistan (TASH) were transferred to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The GBIF is the world's most comprehensive biodiversity database with over 2 billion entries, and is available to scientists…