Earth & Climate

Earth & Climate

Groundwater levels are falling worldwide

This irrigation well in Bangladesh extracts groundwater. © Ahmed Ziaur Rahman Groundwater reserves are declining at an ever-increasing rate around the world. This is confirmed...
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Earth & Climate

Invasive ants influence the hunting success of lions

Acacias previously provided lions with privacy when hunting - but due to the spread of an invasive species of ants, the small trees are...
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Earth & Climate

First rhino embryo transferred to surrogate mother

Southern white rhinoceros © H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0 Deed A species conservation consortium has successfully implanted an artificially fertilized southern white rhinoceros embryo...
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Earth & Climate

Were early feathers used to scare off prey?

A: Artist's impression of the dinosaur Caudipteryx. © Christophe Hendrickx, Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). B: Robot replica of Caudipteryx ©...
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Earth & Climate

Arabica coffee genome decoded in detail

Arabica coffee is particularly popular because of its aroma. © NTCo/ iStock Aromatic Arabica coffee accounts for around 60 percent of the coffee consumed worldwide....
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Global responsibility for the tipping elements of the climate?

Earth systems such as the Amazon rainforest have a high impact on the climate. They should therefore be protected as public property, researchers...
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Earth & Climate

Plant evolution: multicellular already a billion years ago?

Microscopic image of a multicellular, filamentous Klebsormidiophyceae algae, which is adapted to life on land due to thick cell walls. © Tatyana Darienko ...
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Earth & Climate

Former “infidelities” among lynxes revealed

The Iberian lynx is considered one of the rarest cat species in the world. © Goyo Mora/iStock ...
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Earth & Climate

How water striders protect themselves from drowning

Water strider hitting a raindrop. © Daren Watson and Andrew Dickerson Water striders are known for their ability to walk on water. But when raindrops...
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Earth & Climate

Fluffy butterflies with a brilliant sense of smell

Silk moths don't have a nose, they smell with their antennae. But while the sense of smell of human men and women is developed...
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Earth & Climate

How the earthquakes happened in Turkey in 2023

This drone image shows the ground displacement caused by the Turkey earthquake near the town of Çiğli. © Jiannan Meng ...
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Earth & Climate

What can CO₂ capture strategies achieve?

Part of the greenhouse gas could be removed from exhaust gases or specifically extracted from the air. © NicoElNino/iStock ...
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Earth & Climate

Trawls fuel climate change

Fishing with bottom trawling releases large amounts of CO2. © piola666/ iStock It is well known that fishing with huge bottom trawling nets harms the...
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Earth & Climate

What affects the amount of waste in cities

Waste, wastewater and greenhouse gases do not increase at the same rate as a city grows. © Elisa Heinrich Mora ...
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Earth & Climate

Why the Mediterranean region is particularly vulnerable

Some invasive plants such as cacti from the genus Opuntia are difficult to eradicate in the Mediterranean, a biologist warns. © University of...
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Kelp forests are older than thought

Fossil of a root-like structure that was used to attach a seaweed to a hard surface about 32 million years ago. © Steffen...
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Aegean Sea: Undersea volcanic eruption 520,000 years ago

A massive volcanic eruption occurred on the seabed off Santorini 520,000 years ago. © Olga Gavrilova/ iStock ...
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Earth & Climate

Sharks: Increasing losses despite protective measures

The fight against so-called finning - the extraction of fins for the delicatessen market - is apparently not enough to effectively limit the pressure...
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Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: “Mini-brains” reveal triggers for dementia

Brain organsoids grown in the laboratory, such as the cross-section shown here, are intended to form the basis for early gene therapies against age-related...
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Earth & Climate

Lack of oxygen in lakes has long-term consequences

Oxygen deficiency creates even greater oxygen deficiency: the decrease in oxygen levels in temperate lakes follows a feedback mechanism. © M. Lau ...
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