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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

Rain on the Verge of Extinction: How Deforestation Disrupts Rainfall

Deforestation is reshaping the water cycle: thinned areas receive more rain during the wet season and less during the dry season. A recent study highlights how these changes jeopardize the survival of trees.

calendar 10.11.2025
reading-time 6 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

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

Glaciers Melt – Days Grow Longer

Polar ice melting and rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, emerging as a significant factor in the change to the length of a day

calendar 5.1.2025
reading-time 6 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

Rising Antarctica: Melting Glaciers and Continental Uplift

A new study focusing on ice melt in Antarctica and its effects, reveals that the impact of continental uplift on sea levels is influenced by the rate of glacier melting.

calendar 3.12.2024
reading-time 5 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

Slowly Disappearing Canopy – Tropical Forests in Peril

The Green Lungs at risk: how small actions can lead to the collapse of rainforests

calendar 29.10.2024
reading-time 4 minutes

What Are the Components of the Atmosphere?

The five layers of the atmosphere and their gas composition are essential to our existence, just like the air we breathe.

calendar 19.9.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Tackling Global Warming One Meal at a Time

Research indicates that a vegetarian and vegan diet are less harmful to the environment than animal-based diets.

calendar 18.7.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Where Did The Ice Vanish? On Wind and Glacier Dynamics

A new study found that the average daily temperature in the Everest region remains unchanged, yet its glaciers are melting – due to the wind.

calendar 6.6.2024
reading-time 5 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

Unprecedented Winter – What’s With The Environment?

The climate crisis continues to break records in winter, historical agreements to save animal migrations, and humanity willing to pay to mitigate the climate crisis.

calendar 4.4.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Sealing the Hole in the Sky – Reversing Ozone Depletion

How did we manage to curb ozone depletion within just a few decades and what can this teach us?

calendar 3.8.2023
reading-time 11 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?