Over 100,000 years ago, boulders weighing many tons were washed onto a cliff in the Bahamas. It has been long debated whether the rocks were actually…
The carbonate shells of tiny marine plankton, foraminifers, are important archives of geochemical records of past climates. Understanding how these plankton…
About one third of all animal species around the world are threatened. But even so, it is mainly the imposing, large terrestrial and marine animals such as…
Less than half of our planet’s surface is covered by land. The rest is water, and this environment is home to an enormous range of animal species, most of…
The Corinth Rift, located in the Gulf of Corinth in Central Greece is one of the most seismically active areas in Europe. It is here that one of the Earth’s…
Giant lateral collapses may change the style of volcanism and the chemistry of magma, and as a new study by GFZ scientists reveals, also affects and diverges…