Newsroom – Category: Environment & Climate

Winners and losers among the birds at Lake Constance in pictures more

Susan Trumbore of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry on the effect of the forest fires in the Amazon on the global climate more

Mathias Göckede, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, talks about the consequences of global warming for permafrost soils more

Fossil energy is the main source of air pollution and related health burdens more

Scientists have discovered that anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria directly use nitric oxide to grow more

A re-evaluation of the health risks associated with air pollution shows an unexpected high mortality risk, especially due to cardiovascular diseases more

Ancestors of today's sponges formed 560 million years ago more

Microbes use methane - much more frequently and versatile than thought more

Ageing and slipstream effects restrict the actual yield – 20 percent of the difference remains unclear more