Earth & Climate

Cheeky butterflies steal precious chemicals from young congeners

Researchers have not seen it before, but have already coined a catchy term for it: kleptopharmacophagy. Butterflies seem like such lovely, fluttering creatures. But...

Huge channels under the North Sea detailed for the first time

The canals – ten times wider than the Thames – once drained meltwater and may provide more insight into how today's glaciers will fare. We...

All the snakes crawling around now are descended from a handful of species that survived the dinosaurs

The meteorite impact that killed countless organisms, including the dinosaurs, appears to have served as 'creative destruction' for snakes. About 66 million years ago, Earth...

Bushfires as a sea fertilizer

Smoke from the Australian fires over the South Ocean. (Image: Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology) The terrible bush fires in Australia...

Photo worth seeing: Tracking down viral lung damage

The reddish coloration in these lung stem cells marks proteins that play an important role in late sequelae after infection with the coronavirus or...

Featured picture: The mystery of the sea dragons

This colorful animal bears the German name "Searache" because of its reptile-like shape and wing-like back appendages. In reality, it is a fish...

Featured picture: Bony beauty

This jewel-like work of art is a product of nature: it is the thin section of a bone thorn that adorned the shell of...

Snakes: Post-Disaster Careers

In contrast to the dinosaurs, the snakes were able to successfully wriggle out of the disaster. (Illustration: Joschua Knüppe) For the snakes, the asteroid...

How diet affects the climate

Groceries in the supermarket. (Image: Nodar Chernishev / iStock) Our diet is an important driver of climate change: 35 percent of all man-made greenhouse...

Prehistoric primates with a cute tooth

Part of the upper jaw of Microsyops latidens with cavities. (Image: Keegan Selig) Tooth decay is not only common among humans. Researchers have...

Andean glaciers in Peru are rapidly disappearing

View of the Artesonraju Glacier in the Cordillera Blanca in northern Peru. (Image: Dr. Christian Yarlequé / INAIGEM) The mountain glaciers of the Andes...

Limit the promotion of fossil fuels more strongly

Lignite mining in open-cast mining. (Image: claffra / iStock) In order to meet the 1.5 degree climate target, the promotion of fossil fuels must...

Mega eruption with volcanic aftermath

View of Lake Toba, which fills the volcanic collapse structure that was left after a massive explosion some 74,000 years ago. (Image: Adonara...

Warm water puts whales in danger

Climate change is driving the last northern right whale into dangerous waters. (Image: 6381380 / iStock) The consequences of climate change are so complex:...

Featured picture: Endangered dwarf

This small, stub-tailed chameleon only occurs in the Malawi rainforest and was even considered extinct. Now researchers have discovered a few remains in...

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