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Traditional farming supports food, nature and cultural identity
Traditionally farmed landscapes can help produce food while also protecting nature and keeping cultural traditions alive. Researchers studied “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)”. The researchers found that these landscapes can offer practical lessons for sustainable land use worldwide — but only if strategies are adapted to local people, environments and farming traditions.
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Evolution of algal sunscreen
A new study sheds light on how the ancestors of modern land plants survived one of the most challenging aspects of life outside water: exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. By examining a microscopic alga closely related to the earliest land plants, researchers have uncovered a sophisticated and dynamic system for coping with sunburn – one that likely helped plants to colonize land over 500 million years ago. The results were published in Current Biology.
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Can AI improve farmers’ resilience to climate change?
An international team of researchers led by Göttingen University has been awarded a Climate Change AI Innovation grant for the project “Can AI technologies increase farmer’s resilience to climate change? Impact evaluation of Croppie.” Together with academics from EAFIT University and CIAT in Colombia, South America, the funding will enable researchers to explore ways to support small-holder coffee farmers who are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of global warming.
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On the trail of the mysteries of the Universe: cosmic data open to all
Following the completion of the largest survey of the early Universe to date, the team behind the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) has made its extensive dataset available to the public. With half a petabyte of data, researchers and astronomy enthusiasts alike can now investigate how the first galaxies formed and evolved, measure the distribution of stars and gas, map the cosmos, and explore objects that are difficult to find in conventional databases.
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China’s growing global influence
The DFG has awarded funding for a new Research Training Group (RTG): “China-GRASP: China’s Geoeconomic Rise and the Accumulation of Structural Power”. It will be based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business and Economics and builds on the long-standing collaboration at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies. The RTG aims to map China’s growing geo-economic influence across a number of dimensions and to analyse the resulting shifts in political power.
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Eye-catching for shoppers: colourful Nutri-Score labels more effective than grey
Anyone seeking to purchase healthy products at the supermarket needs clear guidance. Nutritional labelling schemes, such as Nutri-Score labels, are designed to help with that. The Nutri-Score is a five-colour system from favourable nutritional composition in green (A) through to unfavourable in red (E). Researchers studied consumers’ visual attention on these label formats. Their research showed colourful labelling catches the eye more frequently. Howeer, the red E did not have the desired warning effect.
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