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What’s Happening to the Earth’s Northern Lung?

Climate change is transforming vast stretches of Arctic tundra from carbon sinks into carbon sources—releasing more greenhouse gases than they absorb.

calendar 9.11.2025
reading-time 8 minutes

Ocean’s Time Capsules – Reconstructing Earth’s Carbon History

Deep within the ocean, ancient carbon lies locked inside sedimentary rocks. In a recent study, scientists have uncovered these geological archives, revealing new insights that redefine our understanding of Earth’s history and the evolution of life.

calendar 26.10.2025
reading-time 4 minutes

Investigations and Politics: This Week in Space

The FAA is investigating recent SpaceX and Blue Origin accidents, UNASA is facing leadership changes under the new U.S. administration, China has demonstrated oxygen production in space, and discussions on preserving the Moon’s heritage. This Week in Space

calendar 30.1.2025
reading-time 10 minutes

How (Almost All) Life Went Extinct

A new study strengthens the hypothesis that the El Niño phenomenon contributed to the great Permian-Triassic extinction, 250 million years ago.

calendar 9.1.2025
reading-time 3 minutes

Reckoning with Our Climate Impact: Shared Responsibility for a Shared Future

To effectively confront the climate crisis, humanity must collectively recognize our responsibility for the environmental damage caused and our moral obligation to address our mistakes with determination and fairness

calendar 31.10.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Burying Carbon in the Sea: An Emerging Solution

Could burying trees in the ocean reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and help combat global warming?

calendar 25.4.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

The Contagious Yawn

We all yawn, and the urge to yawn is highly contagious, yet science remains puzzled by this phenomenon

calendar 14.2.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Surprise Discovery: Water Found on a Nearby Comet

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope could shed new light on the source of Earth’s water

calendar 17.5.2023
reading-time 5 minutes

A Small Whiskered World

Hairs that enhance tactile sensation and those that can detect the respiration of worms. Special mustaches in nature

calendar 16.12.2021
reading-time 15 minutes

The Climate Crisis: Harder and Clearer Than Ever Before

The IPCC report unambiguously implicates greenhouse gas emissions in global warming and calls for immediate action, before it is too late

calendar 19.8.2021
reading-time 6 minutes

More Innovative, More Spectacular and More Cost-Efficient

From robotic attendants to artificial intelligence powered cameras. Ground-breaking technologies at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

calendar 2.8.2021
reading-time 8 minutes

Warming up in front of the (polluting) fireplace

Despite the romantic imagery, warming the house with a wood or charcoal hearth is one of the most environmentally harmful methods of heating, and is also a health hazard

calendar 5.3.2021
reading-time 5 minutes

Record Methane Emissions Worldwide

Bad news for the fight against global warming: The quantity of methane produced by human activity has reached record highs

calendar 3.2.2021
reading-time 4 minutes

How does climate chang e affect world vegetation and the carbon cycle?

How does climate change affect Earth’s vegetation and carbon cycle?

calendar 5.4.2020
reading-time 1 minutes

Tracking the Carbon Cycle

Carbon is the building block of life and has a central role in many processes on our planet

calendar 26.8.2011
reading-time 2 minutes