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Earth & Climate

Cretaceous frog fossil discovered with eggs

Fossil of the Cretaceous female frog with her eggs. © Baoxia Du et al. In northwest China, researchers have discovered the extraordinary fossil of a...
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Earth & Climate

“Climate plantations” really make sense

Can “climate plantations” slow down global warming? © fotojog/ iStock On so-called climate plantations, fast-growing plants are supposed to extract the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide...
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Earth & Climate

Secret of blue fruit color revealed

Blue fruits such as mahonia berries (left) have a wax layer with nanostructures (right) that are responsible for the color impression. © Rox...
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Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: One last hug

In 2000, during the construction of a highway in Altwies in southern Luxembourg, archaeologists discovered two graves from the Early Bronze Age. One of...
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Sea otter: Comeback protects against erosion

Sea otters eat burrowing crabs in the marshes along the California coast, protecting them from erosion. © Killiii Yuyan ...
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Earth & Climate

Hurricanes: Is the Saffir-Simpson scale still enough?

Hurricanes are becoming stronger due to climate change because warmer seas give them more energy. © Elen11/ iStock ...
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Earth & Climate

Do clownfish count stripes?

The different number of stripes in the different anemonefish species apparently has a special meaning. Pictured: Amphiprion ocellaris, © Kina Hayashi ...
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Earth & Climate

How long do discarded straws last?

Plastic straws are a major problem for the world's oceans. © Bryan James/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...
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Earth & Climate

3D fossils of bizarre ancient trees discovered

Artist's impression of the approximately 350 million year old Sanfordia tree with human silhouettes as a scale. © Tim Stonesifer ...
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Earth & Climate

Natron lakes as a cradle of life?

In late summer, the mineral-rich soda lake "Last Chance Lake" in Canada is usually dried out to the point where people can walk on...
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Earth & Climate

This butterfly has sensitivity

A pigeon tail drinking nectar © Anna Stöckl Highly developed eyes and a complex brain enable our human hands to perform even difficult tasks, such...
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Earth & Climate

German parks are suffering from climate stress

Shortened treetops in Berlin's Schönhausen Palace Park. © TU Berlin Heat, storms and drought - the increasingly frequent extreme weather events caused by climate change...
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Volcanism: Warning rumblings cleverly captured

View of the so-called Geldingadalir eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland. © Eva Eibl, University of Potsdam ...
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Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Stone witnesses to early life

Paleontologists assume that microbial life forms already existed around 3.5 billion years ago. However, insights into the diversity of the ecosystems of the time...
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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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