Carbon dioxide increases global plant growth less and less. (Image: RomoloTavani / iStock)
The notorious greenhouse gas also has a beneficial effect on the...
The newly described species Messelopython freyi is the oldest record of a python worldwide. (Image: Senckenberg)
The realm of the giant snakes is now...
The European river network. (Image: EEA, Copenhagen, 2012)
Rivers are important habitats, connecting routes and transport routes. But in Europe, more than 1.2...
This Central American striped basilisk (Basiliscus vittatus) stretches its head towards the sun and warms up on the heated stones. But the cold-blooded...
Plankton density in today's North Pacific. (Image: NASA / GSFC, SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye)
The world's oceans have a significant impact on the climate...
The pterosaurs were pioneers of animal aviation and, among other things, produced the greatest aviators in evolutionary history. (Image: Elenarts / Adobe Stock)
From...
Forest in drought stress (Image: André Künzelmann / UFZ)
In the last 20 years, Germany and Central Europe have experienced more summer heat and drought...
Artist's impression of the primeval bird with the unusual beak. (Image: Mark Witton)
A study shows that even between the dinosaurs, many different species...
Artist's impression of the hot, dense and CO2-rich primordial atmosphere (left) and today's gas envelope on earth (right). (Image: Tobias Stierli / NCCR...