A very unpleasant surprise.
Some time ago, an international team of researchers – including scientists from Utrecht University – traveled to the high Alps to...
A new report from the World Meteorological Organization makes it clear: Climate change is currently transforming our planet before our very eyes.
At the moment,...
It's living science. Everyone who walks, runs or cycles across the bridge contributes to the collection of important information about the construction.
It is...
It is the first time that researchers have discovered that California condors can apparently also reproduce in this special way.
It's an extraordinary discovery: condors...
The ozone hole is now about the size of North America.
Every year between mid-September and mid-October, the 'ozone hole' reaches its maximum size. ...
Despite their social properties, they protect the hive from parasites through social distancing.
Honey bees are very social animals. They work with other females...
Artist's impression of Smilodon Saber-toothed cats on a crack. (Image: 1988 MARK HALLETT MURAL, "TRAPPED IN TIME." COURTESY OF LA BREA TAR PITS.)
Bony...
The bacteria may be more vulnerable than previously thought. And that's good news.
Scientists of the University College London have created super-sharp images of...
Even if countries meet their current commitments, we still have to count on a temperature increase of 2.2 degrees Celsius.
The climate summit in Glasgow...
Melting permafrost may turn out to be Pandora's box.
Due to global warming, the permafrost is thawing: the previously permanently frozen soil that we mainly...
Reconstruction of the original tusk carrier Dicynodon. (Image: Marlene Hill Donnelly)
Whether elephants, walruses or warthogs - tusks have developed independently of one another...