Earth & Climate

This small, luminous creature looks like it has sprung from a fairytale world. The project it belongs to is aptly named FAIRY. But instead...

The Dig Tsho glacial lake in Nepal caused a flash flood in 1985. © Matthew Westoby ...

refugees in Africa. © sadikgulec/ iStock In many regions of the world, climate change is contributing to a deterioration in people's living conditions. According to...

Small but mighty! Scientists can use this drone to detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses in the air. The small propellers direct a flow of air through...

Dolphins and humans go fishing together on the south coast of Brazil. © Damien Farine Humans and marine mammals are by no means always competitors...

Groundwater deficits in 2019 - since then the levels have hardly recovered. © Andreas Kvas/ Graz University of Technology ...

The Milky Way in the night sky over South Africa. Below her is a very special radio telescope: The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array...

This is what Ignacius dawsonae might have looked like. © Kristen Miller/ University of Kansas Early relatives of primates lived on the Canadian island of...

The threat of predators has apparently contributed to the development of spatial memory in pheasants. © Slowmotiongli/iStock ...

Hydrogeologist Oliver Schilling analyzing spring water at Mount Fuji. © T Schilling Where does the water that the people in a region use come from?...

Species of the Drosera microphylla complex. © Thilo Krueger/ Curtin University The sundew is a relatively species-rich carnivorous plant. Six new species have now been...

When we enter a place, we usually know whether we have been there before or not. But how does our brain remember a new...

Researchers extract an ice core in central Greenland. © Alfred Wegener Institute / Sepp Kipfstuhl "Fever diagnosis" of a special kind: A study documents how...

Tobacco plant with chloroplasts inherited from the father plant (green).© MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology When plants reproduce sexually, the genetic material from the cell...

Symplocos kowalewskii in amber. © Carola Radke/ Museum of Natural History Berlin if(document.documentElement.clientWidth<=1220){ //var divAdtile1 = document.getElementById("iqadtile1-wrapper"); var...

Ports are often threatened by several natural hazards. © AvigatorPhotographer/ iStock Most global trade is conducted through ports. However, their coastal and riverine locations make...

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In order to achieve the climate protection goal, more must be invested in climate-related infrastructure. © ETH/AdobeStock ...

Lettuce plants can pick up toxic chemicals from tire debris. © Stephanie Castan & Gabriel Sigmund ...

On the reefs around rat-infested islands, jewel damselfish are less fierce. © Dr Rachel Gunn if(document.documentElement.clientWidth<=1220){ //var...