The Claridenfirn glacier in canton Glarus is completely free of snow in September 2026. Credit: M Huss. More than 5% of Swiss glacial ice vanished in 2026 following an exceptionally warm, dry summer, and a winter with little snow. Nearly 20% of Switzerland’s glacier...
The team used a new method to visualise the data from laser scans made from a plane flown across a huge swathe of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. The resulting images show each tree - and its height - revealing millions of young trees and the beginnings...
A forest fire in Greece, 2007. Credit: Carl Osbourn, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Children born today in Europe will live through almost twice as much extreme fire weather as their grandparents. A child born in...
Image credit: Region 5 Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons New research has found that the smoke from forest fires can have an adverse impact on the biodiversity of bird populations. When forests burn, the direct consequences are obvious: houses go up in...
The two glaciers around the Beerenberg volcano after the rock avalanche: Triggered by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake, large quantities of volcanic and permafrost debris tumbled down at the Kjerulf Glacier, spreading the material across the surface and covering the ice...
One of the many types of sponges that have been found to act as hosts to branching worms. This one is called Crateromorpha meyeri and it is a deep-sea, glass sponge found in Okinawa, Japan. In this close up of its main opening it is possible to see semi-transparent...
The team previously studied live kestrels in the RMIT industrial wind tunnel. Credit: RMIT University. A bio-inspired robotic bird that mimics kestrels is helping to unravel the mysteries behind the species’ exceptional hovering capabilities. With atmospheric...
EarthCARE. Credit: ESA/ JAXA/ ECMWF. CC BY. World first as the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast brings cloud radar data into its global forecasting system. New cloud radar data from the ESA-JAXA EarthCARE space mission is being assimilated into...
Banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) can cooperate with common warthogs (Phacochoerus africanus) by cleaning them, removing ticks and other parasites, while the warthogs provide access to food and safety from predators through their vigilance and presence. Example footage...
Microscope view of a pterosaur fossil section showing carbon coating and mineral layers. Credit: Grice et al., iScience (2026). A perfectly preserved prehistoric pterosaur wing found in northeastern Brazil, has written the fossil rulebook regarding the flying reptile....
