Tag: Erde
Five million children die every year — what do they die from?
To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from. People often ask me for my favorite statistic. My answer changes,...
Viral mediation of anaerobic methane oxidation to carbon sequestration in paddy soil
Soil viruses greatly influence the carbon sequestration processes associated with anaerobic methane oxidation, according to analyses of carbon flows in paddy soil...
Source: Nature Geoscience...
Population tool: How will populations across the world change in the 21st century?
We created an interactive tool that lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations.
How will...
South Korea’s population is set to shrink: what would it take to stop the decline?
How much would fertility rates, life expectancy, or migration rates need to change to stop the population from shrinking? South Korea’s population is expected...
Isotopic evidence for dietary variability among eastern Africa’s first pastoralists
Isotopic studies of human remains can track changes in dietary variation across transitions from wild food procurement to food production. In Kenya and Tanzania,...
Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2025
Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes increased by +0.7% within 2025. However, large-scale deployment of clean electricity sources during the...
Europäischer Zustand des Klimas 2025
Der "European State of the Climate (ESOTC) 2025 report" ist ein Jahresbericht, der vom Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) zusammengestellt wurde und seit ESOTC...
Earth Observation | Copernicus
Earth Observation provides us the tools we need to better understand and monitor our planet. This information can be used to make better decisions...
10 unglaubliche Fakten zum Great Barrier Reef
Das Great Barrier Reef: Es ist einer der schönsten und außergewöhnlichsten Orte auf der Welt. Dieser enorme lebendige Organismus (der größte der Welt) erstreckt...
Animationen: Erdsystemtrends
Die Beschleunigung in den Indikatoren des Erdsystems ist nach 1950 deutlich festzustellen. Erst ab der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zeichnen sich grundlegende Veränderungen...
