Der Mensch beutet die Meere aus, warnen Umweltschützer. Doch wie sehr – und wie lange noch? SPIEGEL-Redakteur Philip Bethge diskutiert darüber an der Uni Kiel mit einem Greenpeace- und einem Fischerei-Experten. Die Ozeane stehen unter enormem Druck. Rund 4,6 Millionen Fischerboote machen weltweit Jagd auf Meeresbewohner aller Art. Über 80 Millionen Tonnen Meeresgetier ziehen Fischer jährlich […]
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The Twilight Saga: Duck-billed Platypuses are Shift Workers
If you are a male duck-billed platypus, all that matters is what the other guys do. Strategies to handle the competition are far more variable then previously thought. In a new paper in the Journal of Mammalogy, Philip Bethge and colleagues from the University of Tasmanias’ Department of Zoology report, that duck-billed platypuses use a […]

Urban Pop right from the Kitchen: “Alltagshelden ohne Ruhm”
The German Pop Band Kitchen Cowboys present their new CD “Alltagshelden ohne Ruhm”, a tribute to the working hero of everyday life and the perpetual struggle for fame and fortune. There are two types of heroes: those who are famous for spectacular acts, and those who struggle to maintain through everyday life. Of these “working […]
SPIEGEL-Editors win Reuters-IUCN Media Award
Reuters Foundation and IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announce today the winners of the 2008 Reuters-IUCN Media Awards for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. Regional winners Europe are Philip Bethge, Rafaela von Bredow and Christian Schwägerl from Germany’s Spiegel magazine, who depict the current revolution in conservation: the discovery of nature as a […]