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Adhering to Cultural Norms Can Help Immigrants Elicit Acceptance, Study Finds

New research finds Germans are less likely to help a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, but this bias fades if she demonstrates agreement with the national consensus that littering is bad.

Tom Jacobs

Dasha the tiger cools off in her pool at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, during the recent European heatwave.

Environment

Investigating the Development of the Modern-Day Zoo

Zoo scholar Natascha Meuser reflects on the connection between zoo architecture and the natural environment, the balance between science and slick branding, and the zoo building's hybrid role as a prison, theater, and museum.

Taylor Moore

An activist dressed as a bumblebee holds a notebook that reads: "Homework for the federal government" during a protest for better conditions for insects on June 19th, 2019, in Berlin, Germany. Several studies point to a strong decline in Germany's insect population over the last decades, with causes attributed to a variety of factors, including the increased use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture, the loss of wild meadows, growing urbanization, and climate shifts.

Viewfinder: Protesters Warn of Insect Population Decline

An activist dressed as a bumblebee protests for better conditions for insects on June 19th, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: Farmers in Germany Fear Possible Summer Drought

The photographer lets soil the texture of dry sand slip through his fingers at a farmer's field on April 25th, 2019, near Liebenwalde, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: A Former Coal Mine Is Flooded to Create an Artificial Lake

A couple watches as water gushes from a pipe into the former Cottbus Nord open-cast coal mine in order to create the Cottbuser Ostsee artificial lake on April 24th, 2019, near Cottbus, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: The Closing of the Last Coal Mine in Germany’s Appalachia

Coal miners give German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier a symbolic final chunk of coal in a ceremony at Schloss Bellevue presidential palace on April 3rd, 2019, in Berlin, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: Anti-Semitic Vandalism in a Jewish Cemetery in France

A man walks by graves vandalized with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France, on February 19th, 2019, the day of a nationwide march against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

Pacific Standard Staff

Viewfinder: Installing a Fence to Keep Wild Boar Out of Denmark

A worker installs a portion of a fence along the Danish border with Germany that is meant to stop wild boar from entering Denmark, on January 31st, 2019, near Tonder, Denmark.

Pacific Standard Staff

Winter sports enthusiasts enjoy a ski day on January 10th, 2019, in Lermoos, Austria. Exceptionally high levels of snow have closed roads and ski resorts, triggered avalanches, and cut off villages across southern Germany and much of Austria.

Viewfinder: Heavy Snowfall Blankets Austria and Southern Germany

Exceptionally high levels of snow have closed roads and ski resorts, triggered avalanches, and cut off villages across southern Germany and much of Austria.

Pacific Standard Staff

Economics

Considering the Euro 20 Years After Its Inception

Europe's transnational monetary union has had its share of hiccups over the past two decades.

Barry Eichengreen