Centerfor Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)

Since this March, meteorologist Dr. Kaah Menang has been a Humboldt Fellow at the CEN. The research scholarship, awarded by the Humboldt Foundation, supports international postdocs and experienced researchers who plan to conduct research in Germany. In the following interview, Menang explains what he’s working on here and...

Shipping is an important economic sector and offers a comparatively clean way to transport large amounts of goods: if the same number of containers were transported by land, the emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants like nitrogen oxides and aerosol particles would be several times higher. Nevertheless, wherever...

Brazil has the greatest biodiversity of any country in the world. But to date, it has also been characterized by inconsistent environmental policy: once a pioneer with an ambitious global sustainability strategy and the host of the groundbreaking Rio Conferences, it has suffered massive setbacks in recent years, both...