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The German and European food systems are neither healthy nor sustainable. Too many animal-based and too few plant-based products are consumed. A corresponding adjustment of value-added taxes would benefit human health, the environment and the economy.

The chart shows for Europe: 23 kg less animal products, 10 kg more plant products, 63 million tonnes less CO₂ equivalents, 167,408 fewer deaths and 83 million US dollars less costs.

Limestone quarries are important habitats, especially for endangered wild bee species. This was discovered by researchers from the Thünen Institute, the University of Göttingen and NABU in the Göttingen region.

In a barren quarry, a yellow flower is blooming.

An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated in their new study that harmful phthalates and endocrine disruptors are released from common soft plastic baits

Various rubbery fishing lures that look like fish lie on the palm of one hand.

The eastern Baltic cod stock is in crisis since years. Despite historically low fishing pressure, it is not recovering. A conclusive explanation for this is still lacking. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries now…

View from above of a ship's deck and a huge brown patch of blue-green algae on the water

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