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Country Overshoot Day marks the date each year when a country would have exhausted its annual biocapacity budget - if everyone in the world lived like its population.

How can employers behave in an environmentally friendly manner and thus act more sustainably? Are waste separation, reducing the CO2 footprint or replacing company cars with car-sharing cars enough?

Mindfulness-based interventions can strengthen individual resilience and even promote social change - at school and university, but also beyond.

Material grievances - especially high youth unemployment - are a far greater breeding ground for extremism than religious or political beliefs.

Material grievances - in particular high youth unemployment - are a far greater breeding ground for extremism than religious or political beliefs.

Researchers from the Oriental Institute at Leipzig University, together with their Hungarian colleague Viktor Forian-Szabo, recently published the book "Berber Studies, Islamic Studies and Arabic Studies in Leipzig".

Following the devastating Cyclone Chido in December 2024, Leipzig University, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international partners, sent a mobile water laboratory to the island of Mayotte off the East African coast.

In the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Chido in December 2024, Leipzig University, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international partners, has sent a mobile water laboratory to the French overseas department of Mayotte off the East African coast.

Following the devastating Cyclone Chido in December 2024, Leipzig University, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international partners, sent a mobile water laboratory to the island of Mayotte off the East African coast.

What role do the candidates for chancellor actually play for voters? How important is TikTok for young people in particular when it comes to deciding who to vote for? How dangerous are disinformation

At Leipzig University, progress is being made in coming to terms with the past: on 1 October 2025, the remains of three Roma were interred in Germany for the first time.

News from A team of physics educators from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools.

News from An international team of researchers have discovered a key mechanism behind the yo-yo effect. Fat cells store memories of obesity in their cell nucleus. These memories remain even after a weight loss programme, making it more likely for someone to put the weight back on. The research team, which includes scientists from the University of Leipzig Medical Center, report on their work in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

In western Germany, support for xenophobic statements has risen significantly and is now approaching attitudes in the east.

Over the years, chemical biology methods have made an important contribution to the study of integral membrane proteins.

News from Jens Meiler was returning from a conference in Mainz with students and postdocs when he received the good news: his long-time colleague and friend, biochemist David Baker from the Universit

More than half of the natural habitat types in Germany are in an ecologically unfavorable state, and more valuable habitat areas are disappearing every day.

The lightest of all'elements, hydrogen, is in great demand due to its promising role as a sustainable resource in the energy transition. A team from Leipzig University and TU Dresden, as part of the Hydrogen Isotopes 1,2,3H Research Training Group, has made an important breakthrough in the efficient and cost-effective provision of isotopes.

News from Leipzig University has today (22 August 2024) submitted two detailed full proposals for Clusters of Excellence.