Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

Isotope analyses of limestone cave deposits reveal recurrent humid intervals in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the last eight million years.
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A mixture of different ingredients offers an alternative to foie gras thanks to treatment with a goose enzyme more

Jochem Marotzke, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,  shares his assessment of what the Trump administration's policies mean for his American colleagues and national and international climate research more

Contrary to previous claims, the ocean absorbs more microplastics from the atmosphere than it releases into it more

A weakening of the North Atlantic overturning circulation would cause the ocean to absorb less carbon dioxide - this is associated with economic costs and the climate continues to heat up more

Even after complete deforestation, the average annual precipitation would not change significantly - but its distribution over the year and the region would more

The tiny ice inhabitants darken the glacier surface and can thus accelerate its melting.  more

Global climate models show, how the Arctic permafrost will respond to global warming more