Mushrooms are among the oldest living organisms on Earth. Their history goes back more than one billion years – long before the first plants or animals existed. Fossil finds show that mushrooms were already present in the early develo­p­mental phases […]

One hectare of Trinkwasserwald… … may sound incon­spi­cuous – about the size of one and a half football pitches — yet something great happens on this area: year after year, up to 800,000 litres more clean ground­water are generated here on average than […]

Trees are true masters of adapt­a­tion and survival Their growth is far more than an impres­sive natural pheno­menon – it is the result of a long evolu­tio­nary develo­p­ment and the basis for the stabi­lity of entire ecosys­tems.   […]

Ferns are among the oldest groups of plants on Earth… … their history goes back more than 350 million years, to the age of the dinosaurs. Even then, they covered large parts of the planet and shaped the early […]

Leaves Hardly has autumn begun than the great spectacle of the seasons starts: the leaves turn bright red, golden and amber, detach from the crowns and whirl down to the ground in little dances – […]

Water is the basis of all life on Earth … … and an indis­pensable resource for people, animals and plants. Without water we could not exist, because our bodies consist of more than the […]