The Arctic ice is melting and new, shorter sea routes between Europe, America and Asia are opening up. By the middle of the century, the transpolar route could even become navigable via the then almost ice-free North Pole.
Enviroment Shared sky Berliner Zeitung, 23./24. November 2019 About air pollution in the GDR, the true extent of which is only now becoming known PDF Download
Aging Focus on grandparents Berliner Zeitung, 13./14. Oktober 2018 Loving and indulgent grandparents with lots of time – who wouldn’t want that? Thanks to increased life expectancy, many people’s wishes are now fulfilled and three generations in a family are normal. A booming branch of the social sciences – grandparent research – is investigating how […]
Prehistory On the tracks of the first Americans FAZ, 2. Mai 2018 In the dry north-east of Brazil, in the Serra da Capivara, thousands of well-preserved, enigmatic rock paintings testify to a long lost culture. Did they live here, the first Americans? Here are the results of my research trip to this remote part of […]