Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: A sharp look into the plant

(Image: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) This detailed 3D representation of a developing soy flower was created using a new X-ray microscopy method. It...

How Neanderthals changed their environment

Excavations in Neumark-Nord near Halle. (Photo: Wil Roebroeks / University of Leiden) Around 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals may have had an impact on their...

How well-designed solar parks can boost biodiversity

On the road to renewable energy, solar parks may provide another important benefit: for nature. In order to achieve the objectives of the Paris Climate...

Long bird tongue even in dinosaur times

Left: Depiction of the fossil head of the Cretaceous bird with the hyoid bone marked in color. Right: Artist's impression of the animal,...

New Arctic heat record: 38 degrees Celsius!

It is a temperature more suited to the Mediterranean area, but was actually measured in June 2020 in Verkhoyansk – a Russian city near...

Accumulation of mouth caps lying around threatens to become a serious environmental problem

“If governments require the use of face masks, they must also provide sufficient information about cleaning them up.” That's what researcher Keiron Roberts says in...

On the trail of the Cretaceous speedsters

Artist's impression of a theropod dinosaur moving quickly on soft ground. (Image: Pablo Navarro-Lorbés) In today's Spain, over 100 million years ago, dinosaurs were...

How plants buy us time in the face of climate change

Photosynthesis in plants is an important CO2 sink. (Image: Jeja / iStock) How does the photosynthesis rate of plants change when more CO2 is...

Plants now remove much more CO2 from the air

But not enough to stop climate change. Wooded areas and similar ecosystems are considered to be one of the planet's most important carbon sinks. ...

Scientists are hunting for microplastics using… sound waves

Using acoustic waves, small pieces of plastic can be effectively fished out of polluted water. Microplastics are tiny, but a huge problem. Over the...

Your plastic chip tray exacerbates that other major health crisis: the rise of resistant bacteria

Because discarded plastic appears to make an important contribution to the threat of resistance to antibiotics. We are currently experiencing some major health crises. ...

“Venice of the Stone Age” sank in floods

In addition to the remains of monumental water infrastructure, fascinating jade works of art also testify to the high culture of the Stone Age...

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