Biology

Iconers in Greenland drive ice currents ahead

This ice drilling core from the Greenland ice shield shows a dark layer of volcanic particles. © Lukasz Larsson Warzecha/ ETH Zurich ...

Do sharks and rays benefit from climate change?

Resting white-tip reef sharks (Triaenodon Obesus) under a table coral off the coast of Indonesia. The very species -rich coasts of these tropical waters...

How does evolution go without sex?

Rasterelectron microscopy recording the horn mite platythrus peltifer. It continues to plant purely. © Mark Maraun/ Katja Wehner ...

Arctic: From the CO₂ sink to the source

More and more Arctic areas are moving from carbon sinks (blue) to sources (red). © Greg Fiske / Woodwell Climate Research Center ...

Eel larvae “surf” on the perfect wave

The transparent larvae of European eels take advantage of currents on their long migration. © Thünen Institute/Marko Freese ...

How much methane was released by the Nord Stream leaks

The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines in autumn 2022 released large amounts of natural gas. But how much exactly? © Guteksk7/ iStock ...

Ants can be resentful

Black garden ants (Lasius niger) remember past encounters with alien antics from their nests. © claffra/ iStock ...

Rendzina is soil of the year 2025

The Rendzina is created, among other things, on chalk limestone - like here on Rügen. © Karl-Heinz Feger / DBG German Soil Science Society ...

First census in the largest bonobo stronghold

Bonobos mostly stay in trees and build nests in them to sleep. © Christian Ziegler/Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Biology ...

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