Earth & Climate

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...

Featured picture: A barrel full of poison

This heavily rotten barrel has been standing on the seabed off the coast of Southern California for around 50 years. It contains highly...

How the first roots developed

Artistic reconstruction of Asteroxylon mackiei. (Image: Matt Humpage) When the plants conquered the land, they had to develop completely new structures - including the...

Featured picture: Fast and economical: the HoreKa supercomputer

These cool blue shining computer towers belong to the HoreKa supercomputer, the new high-performance computer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It...

Out and about with a mammoth

Male woolly mammoth in Alaska. (Image: James Havens / University of Alaska Museum of the North) Mammoths are icons of Ice Age fauna, but...

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