Red alert: drought increases risk of forest fires
Dry soil, lack of rain and already in March: high fire risk in our forests! A forest fire in the district of Freistadt/Upper Austria...
Consequences
Clear link between global warming and heavy rainfall and flooding for the first time
The assumption that there is an increase in heavy rainfall events and thus more frequent small-scale flooding due to the climate crisis could now be...
PFAS pesticides in groundwater - chambers of agriculture counter
The study published by GLOBAL 2000 and the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor on the perpetuating chemical trifluoroacetate (TFA) in Austrian mineral water has...
Mineral water check: Eternal chemical in 14 out of 23 mineral waters
The environmental protection organization GLOBAL 2000, in cooperation with the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour, has tested 23 of the most important Austrian mineral and medicinal waters for...
Microplastics detected in Austria's glacial lakes for the first time
Greenpeace has tested four Austrian glacial lakes for microplastics. The result is alarming: microplastics were found in the samples of all glaciers....
Fires in California become more likely
Fire is an unimaginable force of nature that flares up again and again in the Los Angeles area. What makes the conditions so flammable...
Global genetic diversity of many species is declining rapidly
In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity to date, an international team of experts has found that genetic diversity worldwide...
"Megadroughts" on the rise
A new study with Austrian participation finds that droughts that extend over several years have become more frequent in recent...
Heat and drought affect soil more than expected in climate crisis
Grasslands cover almost 40 percent of the Earth's surface and play an important role in the global water cycle. Yet so far we only understand...
Arctic tundra is changing in record time
After thousands of years of storing carbon dioxide in the frozen ground, the Arctic tundra is becoming a source of carbon for the environment due to frequent forest fires.
