Earth & Climate

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...

Creeping salination of lakes

The idyll is deceptive: many lakes in Europe are threatened by salinity. © wmaster890/ iStock Salt from road salt, fertilizer and mine waste water...

Climate change is disrupting bird diets

The American Bluebird (Sialia sialis) benefits from earlier fledging of aquatic insects. © Steve Byland, istock In order to raise their chicks, birds depend...

Photo worth seeing: Tinkering with the proton beam

Here, two scientists are preparing an experiment using the POLARIS laser at the University of Jena. This should help to make it easier...

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