Judiciaries in a number of countries are increasingly under attack from populist parties. Political scientist Philipp Köker explains the strategy behind the trend – and how to counter it.

The global biodiversity targets adopted in 2022 are aligned with science and represent a major advance on the Aichi Targets adopted in 2010, an international research team reports in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Unusual seating furniture has recently been installed on the Haarentor campus. Sitting or lying down: here you can relax, learn and exchange ideas. Students from the Technical Education Working Group (ATB) worked on the benches.

Marine science, education, and staff and student exchange are among the key areas of the university's partnership with the Mandela University. At this year's board meeting, the partners reviewed existing collaborations and envisaged future paths.

150,000 households recently received some unusual mail. They are invited to become participants in the "Lower Saxony Panel" and actively take part in research themselves - for example that of political scientist Jan Sauermann.

Sebastian Wilks has been working at the university for 20 years. He is now head of the Academic Examination Office. He wants to use his position to help shape the university's development.

At the beginning of the month, 15 young people started their training at the university. The spectrum of training professions is broad - it ranges from administration to skilled trades to IT.

Australian bogong moths are famous for their long-distance migrations. An international team including Oldenburg researchers has discovered that the insects use the stars as a compass during their annual journey to cool inland caves.

In order to calibrate tiny radio transmitters, researchers from the Migration Ecology working group took to the skies. Their unique experiment was designed to enable more accurate tracking of migratory bird routes.

Biodiversity in the Wadden Sea has undergone a noticeable reorganisation since the middle of the last century, according to a new study. Researchers from Oldenburg and Groningen have analysed biodiversity using a holistic approach for the first time.

Unusual research approaches in which disciplines that at first glance have little in common join forces is a defining feature of the new "booster units" that will commence their activities in the upcoming winter semester.

A new paper published in Science by a team including ecologist Iliana Baums urges regulatory reform to accelerate coral restoration using assisted gene flow – an essential step to safeguard the economic and ecologic services that reefs provide. 

Prospective teachers learn how to tend a school garden on the Haarentor campus. The "Campusacker" project, led by educationalist Ines Oldenburg, aims to help bring education for sustainable development into schools.

A team led by marine researcher Oliver Wurl is travelling the Atlantic on the research vessel Meteor. Four team members talk about life on board, the top millimetre of the ocean and working with a television crew.

An international initiative aims to raise awareness of the fact that rankings do not capture all of an institution's strengths. Now, the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen have joined the initiative together.

The German Research Foundation is funding the „DynaDeep” project by Oldenburg hydrogeologist Gudrun Massmann with around five million euros for a further four years. A large part of the research will take place on Spiekeroog.

Converting residential neighbourhoods to renewable energies is an important component of the energy transition. Researchers led by Astrid Nieße have investigated how this can be achieved in the "Future Energy Lab".

More rain in the winter, droughts in the summer: the climate is changing in the north-west of Lower Saxony. In the WAKOS project, environmental and social science researchers from Oldenburg are investigating ways to adapt to these changes.

Astor Piazzolla's opera "María de Buenos Aires" first appeared on stage almost 60 years ago - it is still regarded as an homage to tango today. Now students from the University and the University of the Arts Bremen are performing the piece together.

The University of Oldenburg is committed to promoting good health among students and employees. In this interview, Tim Wohlann and Leon Hoffmann explain the role of the Employee and Student Health Management Services.