Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
When it gets too hot in street canyons in summer, many city dwellers head for the parks. No wonder: it can be up to five degrees cooler there than in the concrete jungle. The greenery works like air conditioning. But which trees have the greatest cooling effect? Plant ecologist Mohammad Rahman is in Munich trying to find out.
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That’s me on the climbing wall at the 2018 Paraclimbing World Championships in Innsbruck. For the second time in succession, I took the world title in the AL-2 category. This stands for “athletes with an amputated leg or leg deficiency”.
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The best four works of journalism from the third Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes.
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Watch the video message from Hans-Christian Pape, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the opening of the 2021 GAIN annual meeting.
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Science communication has penetrated the awareness of research, politics and society. At the same time, the pressure on researchers to make their outcomes accessible to the public at large has grown. During the summer school “Communicating Science”, 50 junior researchers from 26 countries worked together to elaborate recommendations for action.
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What made scientific policy advice on the pandemic so successful in Uruguay. An interview with Rafael Radi, general coordinator of the science advisory group GACH in Uruguay
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