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New publication in Global Change Biology explores the impact of chemical pollution on biodiversity

17.04.2023 EDGE

Pollution of the environment with chemicals threatens biodiversity and our ecosystems. However, research on biodiversity loss does not yet…

EDGE on Hessischer Rundfunk

11.04.2023 EDGE

Thilo Hofmann, Ruoting Peng and Anya Sherman from EDGE were featured in hr's "alles wissen", presenting the research behind their paper "Uptake,…

Start of CeMESS Lecture Series – summer 2023 edition

31.03.2023 CeMESS

The CeMESS Lecture Series started with a talk by Shaul Pollak on “Combining machine-learning, ecological theory, and experiments to study bacterial…

EDGE on ORF2

24.03.2023 EDGE

Today, Thilo Hofmann from EDGE talkes about the possibilities of waste water screening to predict drug consumption trends in Europe on ORF 2's "Mayrs…

Welcome New Group Member: Ronja Kok

23.03.2023 EDGE

Ronja Kok joined EDGE in March 2023 to support our administrative team – she will be responsible for organizing the lecture series, developing the…

New Publication in Environmental Pollution: Benchmarking Biochar with Activated Carbon for Immobilizing Leachable PAH and Heterocyclic PAH in Contaminated Soils

16.03.2023 EDGE

In the scope of the KOKOSAN II project, Carlotta Carlini, Gabriel Sigmund and colleagues compared the performance of biochar, steam activated biochar…

Women in Science 2023 @ CMESS

11.02.2023 CeMESS

Spotlight on female researchers: For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th and the International Women's Day on March…

International Women's Day 2022 @ CMESS

09.02.2023 CeMESS

For International Women's Day on 8 March, we are putting the spotlight on women at CMESS. Just over half of the CMESS staff and researchers are women.…

New Publications on the Use of Acesulfame to Study Critical Processes in Subsurface Water

08.02.2023 EDGE

EDGE researchers investigated how the seasonal biodegradation of the artificial sweetener acesulfame (ACE) can be used to study critical processes in…