Jeannette Cwienk
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- Aug 25, 2026
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Trees are vital for cooler cities, but they need help too (opens the original)
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Walking beneath the trees this historically hot summer, sometimes felt like autumn had already arrived: dry, dead leaves crunching underfoot, and crowns tinged yellow or completely bare. That's a problem because large leafy trees help make our cities more livable. They block sunlight, reduce pollution, store carbon, provide habitats for biodiversity to thrive, soak up otherwise harmful stormwater runoff and even boost the mental and physical health of residents. "When trees go away, those things
What to do when wildfires trigger trauma (opens the original)
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This year, wildfires have already burned more land than the annual average from 2006 to 2025 in Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populous state, has just seen the largest recorded wildfire in its history. It destroyed or damaged about 300 to 400 hectares in the Hürtgen Forest in the Eifel region. After weeks without rain, the wildfire spread rapidly across the arid landscape with wind driving the flames in different directions. Unexploded munitions from World War II that were
Running dry: How to store more groundwater for dry seasons (opens the original)
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Many soils in Germany are far too dry. Rainfall was already lacking in spring, especially in March. Even the partly above-average precipitation in some regions during April and May was unable to replenish the missing moisture in deeper soil layers. This is shown by the current drought monitorof the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ). The city of Munich in southern Germany has banned filling private swimming pools and watering lawns. Following an extreme heat wave at the end of Jun
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