Earth & Climate

Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Silent Frogs

This frog has an unusual quality: it is mute. Unlike his conspecifics, he does not croak and does not make any other sounds. In...
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Earth & Climate

Why biodiversity is greatest at the equator

Different species of foraminifera from the contemporary ocean. © Richard Bizley/ BizleyArt Species diversity increases from the poles to the equator. Two studies of fossil...
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Cockatoos combine tools into sets

A Goffin Cockatoo solving the tool task. © Thomas Suchanek Using tool kits and transporting them to the job site has long been considered a...
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Our plastic waste also ends up in the Arctic

Plastic waste washed ashore on Svalbard, sorted by country of origin © J. Hagemann Plastic waste pollutes the oceans and is found even in supposedly...
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Photo worth seeing: Fairy robots

This small, luminous creature looks like it has sprung from a fairytale world. The project it belongs to is aptly named FAIRY. But instead...
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Glacial lake flash floods threaten millions of people worldwide

The Dig Tsho glacial lake in Nepal caused a flash flood in 1985. © Matthew Westoby ...
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Climate refugees: too poor to leave?

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...
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Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: How drones detect pathogens

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...
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Cooperation between dolphin and human

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

Europe is still too dry

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

Photo worth seeing: radiation from the past

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

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

Local pheasants are less likely to be victims

The threat of predators has apparently contributed to the development of spatial memory in pheasants. © Slowmotiongli/iStock ...
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On the trail of water using environmental DNA

Hydrogeologist Oliver Schilling analyzing spring water at Mount Fuji. © T Schilling Where does the water that the people in a region use come from?...
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New sundew species found using social media

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...
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Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: How we memorize new places

When we enter a place, we usually know whether we have been there before or not. But how does our brain remember a new...
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Greenland: Warming up to central altitudes

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

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...
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World’s largest amber flower re-examined

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

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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