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Extreme heat, floods and drought threaten lives across Latin America and Caribbean
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Record-breaking temperatures, deadly floods, worsening drought and intensifying hurricanes are placing millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean at growing risk of...
Scientists think they’ve cracked the mystery of human right-handedness
A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs and developing much larger brains. Researchers...
EEA launches 2026 photo competition — Resilient by Nature
What is the relationship between nature and society? That is the key theme of this year’s European Environment Agency (EEA) 2026 photo competition ‘Resilient...
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...
A Canada-led clean trade pact would show that middle powers mean business
Prime Minister Mark Carney has won deserved praise for standing firm against the Trump administration’s threats and imposition of tariffs. But political credit is only...
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,...
Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years...
Scientists discover hidden “brakes” that stop massive earthquakes
A mysterious underwater fault near Ecuador has been producing nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every five to six years, baffling scientists for decades. Researchers...
Climate change exposes hundreds of millions to longer and deadlier pre-monsoon heat in South Asia
From mid April and advancing into May, India and Pakistan experienced extremely high temperatures, including daily maximum temperatures above 46°C in many cities in...
Bär/Eicken: „Das Forschungsschiff Polarstern wandelt unser Verständnis für die Weltmeere“
Nach 183 Tagen in der Antarktis ist das Forschungsschiff Polarstern heute, am 15. Mai, in seinen Heimathafen zurückgekehrt. In Bremerhaven wurde sie im Beisein...
