Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

An interview with Susan Trumbore on the tipping points of the fragile Amazon ecosystem and why it helps to eat less meat. more

Today, ice sheets cover an area that is almost as large as South America. Even though this equals only about three percent of the Earth’s surface, they play, similar to Arctic sea ice, a major role for the climate. In order to investigate ice sheets and their interaction with the climate, we are developing a climate model in which the extent of the ice sheets changes over time. Such changes and interactions have so far been insufficiently represented in conventional climate models. more

Researchers announce major step towards defining a new geological epoch more

Archaea cultivated in the laboratory are active even at high temperatures and without oxygen more

At certain times in the year, more soot particles reach the Amazon rainforest from bush fires in Africa than from regional fires. more

High levels of ozone destroy the chemical mating signal of the insects and may thus contribute to global insect decline more

Convection of salty water creates hexagonal patterns more

Tolerance to strong winds and storm avoidance strategy differs among seabird species more

When metabolizing spruce bark, the insect’s fungal partners release volatile compounds that bark beetles  recognize through specialized olfactory sensory neurons more

Earth’s past warm periods witnessed the shrinkage of the open ocean’s oxygen-deficient zones. more