Icebergs and ice front of the Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier in West Greenland. (Image: Alfred Wegener Institute / Ingo Sasgen
Greenland is still covered by...
Analyzes of stalagmite samples from caves in the north of Laos have provided geochemical indications of climatic developments in the heavily populated Asian monsoon...
The tropical belt, shaped by rainforests, is expanding. (Image: NASA / iStock)
Over the past few decades, the Earth's tropical belt has expanded slowly...
The belly of this fossil ichthyosaur contains the central portion of another marine reptile that was only slightly smaller. (Image: Da-Yong Jiang, et...
Apparently humans were not responsible for the extinction of the horned steppe dweller. (Image: Fedor Shidlovskiy)
For millennia they trudged through the icy landscapes...
Since 1852 paleontologists have speculated about the way of life of this 242 million year old dinosaur. (Image: Beat Scheffold, PIMUZ, UZH)
The neck...
A deep-sea research submersible extracts sediment cores from the sea floor. (Image: Geoff Wheat, NSF OCE 1130146, and the National Deep Submergence Facility)
It...
Researchers present record holders under the lightning. (Image: Sjo (iStock)
Legend has it that Zeus hurled them impressively far across the sky - but...
Seit einigen Tagen ist der Vulkan Anak Krakatau in Indonesien wieder aktiv. Er speit Asche und Lava, wie diese Satellitenaufnahme zeigt. Berühmt ist dieser...
Smog in Peking. (Bild: beijingstory/ iStock)
Feinstaub ist in vielen Ballungsräumen ein Gesundheitsproblem, weil die winzigen Partikel tief in die Lunge eindringen können. Jetzt belegt...