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Is Earth Warming Faster Than Before?

Record-breaking temperatures were observed in 2023 and 2024. Does this reflect an acceleration in the rate of Earth’s warming?

calendar 18.11.2025
reading-time 8 minutes

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

Meet the Brain-Eating Amoeba

Naegleria fowleri is a single-celled organism commonly found in warm freshwater. In rare cases, it can enter the human brain and lead to a rapidly lethal outcome—as recently occurred in Texas. What do we know about this deadly organism, and how can we reduce the risk?

calendar 11.6.2025
reading-time 12 minutes

Forecast: Hotter Days Ahead — and Rising Death Tolls

A new study warns that without urgent action to address the climate crisis, extreme weather could claim the lives of up to 2.3 million people in European cities by the end of the century.

calendar 8.4.2025
reading-time 5 minutes

Racing Toward an Ice-Free Arctic: The Melt Is Outpacing Expectations

Arctic sea ice is melting at a much faster rate than previously expected. A new study warns that within just two and a half years, the Arctic Ocean could experience its first nearly ice-free summer—a dramatic milestone in the unfolding climate crisis.

calendar 21.3.2025
reading-time 5 minutes

Who Moved My Oxygen?

Oxygen depletion in Earth’s freshwater and marine ecosystems is approaching alarming levels, threatening global stability. Scientists call for its recognition as a planetary boundary to spur urgent research and policy action.

calendar 9.2.2025
reading-time 5 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

The Shifting Rainfall Patterns

Recent research suggests that the Eastern Mediterranean region is likely to experience fewer rainy days in the future, accompanied by more intense rainfall during each event. What fundamental scientific principles help explain these projected changes?

calendar 14.12.2024
reading-time 6 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

Why The Two-Degree Climate Goal?

The fight against global warming aims to cap the temperature increase at two degrees Celsius. But where did this target come from?

calendar 18.4.2024
reading-time 4 minutes

Record Breaking Summer – What’s Up With The Environment?

How unusual is the heat of the current summer and is it related to the climate crisis?

calendar 3.8.2023
reading-time 8 minutes

Wine Astringency with a Flavor of Climate Change

How do climate change and global warming affect the grape industry and wine production?

calendar 22.6.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

A Step Forward in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution

World Environment Day is focusing on the fight against plastic pollution

calendar 6.6.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

COP27 – An Ambiguous Compensation Agreement, No Progress on Weaning

An Ambiguous Compensation Agreement, No Progress on Weaning Off Fossil Fuels

calendar 22.11.2022
reading-time 6 minutes

The Climate Crisis – What Can We Do?

Each and every one of us can take part in significantly reducing the damage caused by global warming. It’s up to us

calendar 5.6.2022
reading-time 12 minutes

Is The End Of The World Near?

For many generations we have been threatened with an apocalypse that could destroy humanity – What does science have to say about it?

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

The Hottest Year On Record

The average temperatures in 2020 were the highest on record, accompanied by heat waves and massive fires

calendar 12.8.2021
reading-time 4 minutes

How Is The Climate Crisis Killing Us?

An international committee reports: the incidence of infectious diseases is rising due to climate change, as are diseases related to air pollution

calendar 17.6.2021
reading-time 4 minutes

The Cicadas that Jumped the Gun

Scientists are trying to understand what caused the cicadas to mature four years earlier than expected

calendar 26.4.2021
reading-time 4 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

A Decade of Science

Microbiomes, big data, the Higgs boson, and brain-computer interface

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