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‘Vacuum cleaner’ to suck methane at bottom of reservoirs

Test of the prototype methane suction device on the Wupper Vorsperre. © TH Cologne Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane can be produced at...
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Glyphosate makes bumblebees incapable of learning

Glyphosate impairs the learning and cognition of bumblebees. © Sander Meertins/ iStock The controversial herbicide glyphosate not only kills plants, but also impairs the cognitive...
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Surprisingly warm plankton feeder

Basking sharks swim with their mouths open, filtering plankton from the water. © Rebecca Belleni Photography/iStock ...
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Northwest Greenland was ice-free 400,000 years ago

This is what the landscape might have looked like where there is a thick layer of ice today. © Josh Brown, University of...
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“Plastic rock” threatens the oceans

Plastiglomerate made from coral debris held together by melted plastic waste. © Birgit Mohr, University of Kiel ...
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Scenic fossil: mammal preys on dino

The mammalian dino double fossil with enlargements of the bite site and paw positions. © Gang Han. Top right: Artist's rendering of...
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Causes of reed death in Berlin lakes clarified

Reeds have many important ecological functions for a lake. © Michael Feierabend In many lakes in Europe, the reeds have been declining for decades -...
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Nightingale: Rivals with tuning fork effect

Researchers have listened analytically to the legendary virtuosos of the bird world. © Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence / Magdalena Warner ...
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145 million year old pterosaur from Bavaria

145 million year old fossil of the new pterosaur species Petrodactyle wellnhoferi. © René Lauer Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to conquer the airspace, at...
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Photo worth seeing: alien rivers

On Earth, many rivers branch into multiple branches at their mouths, forming a fan-shaped river delta—quite unlike the rivers of Titan. Liquid methane flows...
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Volcanism: Of danger, death and life

The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcanic chain on La Palma made headlines in 2021. © Sander Meertins/iStock ...
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Some lakes more polluted than the oceans

Microplastic particles are smaller than five millimeters. © pcess609/ iStock Some of the world's oceans are so polluted with plastic waste that huge garbage patches...
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A deep-sea octopus on the move

"Dumbo" octopus Cirrotheutis muelleri catching prey on the seabed of the deep sea. © Eva Ramirez-Llodra (REV Ocean, NIVA)/ ROV Aurora Borealis technicians...
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A reference point for the Anthropocene

Sedimentary layers from Canada's Crawford Lake. © Tim Patterson We humans have changed the earth more than any organism before us. For this reason, our...
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Climate change is changing the color of the oceans

Sea color imaged by the Aqua satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). © NASA/Joshua Stevens, Landsat/MODIS Data, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response ...
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Fossil provides new insights into the evolution of tunicates

This is what the tunicate Megasiphon thylakos, which lived around 500 million years ago, could have looked like. © Franz Anthony ...
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The largest flying fox colony on earth

Palm fruit bats in Kasanka National Park in Zambia: The world's largest colony of fruit bats is located there. © Christian Ziegler/ MPI...
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Same-sex sex in rhesus monkeys

Rhesus monkeys in Puerto Rico. © Chloe Coxshall Homosexuality and same-sex sex have so far been considered rare exceptions in the animal kingdom - partly...
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Glacier retreat creates new sources of methane

Problematic loaded water penetrates to the surface in the retreat area of ​​the arctic glaciers. © Gabrielle Kleber ...
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Baby Feathers from the Cretaceous Period

This tuft of feathers, preserved in all its details in yellowish amber, belonged to a chick 99 million years ago. The researchers, who examined the...
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