Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

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

People generate their own oxidation field and change the indoor air chemistry around them more

Many publications by Max Planck scientists in 2021 were of great social relevance or met with a great media response. We have selected 12 articles to present you with an overview of some noteworthy research of the year more

Greenland meltwater stopped Gulf Stream and weakened Indian summer monsoon more than 100,000 years ago more

Jochem Marotzke assesses the results of the World Climate Summit in Glasgow more

The statistical model with which global warming can be attributed to increasing concentrations of CO₂ in the atmosphere was developed by former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Klaus Hasselmann, who will be receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for his work. more