Earth & Climate

Female chimpanzees don’t like humans so much

While males are not afraid of anything, female chimpanzees prefer to stay far away from humans. People are basically everywhere these days. Also...

Bacterial genes drove evolution of land plants

The green alga Micrasterias is closely related to land plants. © tonaquatic/ iStock Hundreds of genes in today's plants originally come from bacteria, fungi...

The recent eruption of the Tonga volcano is also not going to save our climate

The cooling effect of the concentration of sulfur dioxide pumped into the air by the volcano is 'disappointing'. In early January, a submarine volcano...

Two new relatives for T. rex?

Tyrannosaurus rex (left) attacking a triceratops. © Gregory S Paul, 2022 The Tyrannosaurus rex may not have been the only representative of its genus....

IPCC report: ‘Climate change threatens people and planet’

A new report from the IPCC, the UN's climate panel, urges humanity to act. This autumn, the sixth climate report of the Intergovernmental Panel...

IPCC: Climate impacts affect billions of people

Climate impacts affect people and nature equally. © leolintang/iStock The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second part of its current status...

Photo worth seeing: Viral attack on human cells

The corona pandemic is still causing countless illnesses and deaths worldwide. It is all the more important to fully elucidate the molecular mechanisms...

Scientists warn: replacing farmers on a large scale with algorithms is not without risk

Plans to deploy artificial intelligence in the agricultural sector are becoming increasingly concrete. But is that wise? Imagine a wheat field stretching to...

Noisy melting factor revealed

Meltwater flows into an opening on the surface of Greenland's Store Glacier and then rushes kilometers down to its bottom. © Poul Christoffersen Researchers...

Societal extinction – when species are forgotten

Bees are well known and have a lobby. However, this is different for many other endangered or already extinct species.© Photografiero/ iStock Out of...

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