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Terra X: Artensterben – die Fakten Dokureihe, D 2021 Eine Million Arten auf der Erde sind vom Aussterben bedroht. "Terra X" geht den Ursachen nach und zeigt auf, welche dramatischen Konsequenzen die Krise der Biodiversität für die Menschheit hat. Die Weltgemeinschaft hat sämtliche Ziele zur Erhaltung der biologischen Vielfalt 2020 verfehlt, das zeigt der neueste UN-Bericht. "Wir erleben gerade das größte Artensterben seit dem Verschwinden der Dinosaurier", erläutert Dirk Steffens. Der "Terra X"-Moderator ist Botschafter der UN-Dekade "Biologische Vielfalt" und gi...

The World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Free of Antarctica Image Credit: Shutterstock / 2j architecture A 4000 square-kilometer iceberg has been cleaved from the Ronne Ice Shelf, making it the largest current iceberg. The Weddell Sea, part of the Southern Ocean, is already home to some pretty impressively sized icebergs, and a new berg that has separated from the Ronne Ice Shelf has just snatched the record for the largest extant iceberg. The gigantic iceberg, dubbed A-76, is 4,320 square kilometers large and was spotted by the British Antarctic Survey  —  a project that is one of the wor...

May 19, 2021 03:21 PM EDT While Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State emphasizes climate change in the Arctic at conferences with other national officials this week in Iceland, an even larger threat emerges on the other side of the planet. (Photo : Getty Images) Global Temperatures Rise  New research reveals it is Antarctica that may compel a reckoning between the country's choices today about greenhouse gas emissions and the potential survival of their coastal cities and coastlines, from New York to Shanghai. That reckoning may arrive much earlier than people notice. The amount of ice in ...

Fibre-optic cables usually make us think of ultra-fast internet – or maybe the irritation of new installation works digging up the pavement. But there are now such cables snaking their way through the centre of the planet’s second largest body of ice, the Greenland ice sheet. Fibre-optic technologies are allowing us to monitor the internal structure of glaciers in unprecedented levels of detail. In our new study, we show how fibre-optics are offering extraordinary new insight into how ice sheets evolve – and how the movement of Greenland’s glaciers is far more complicated than previou...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8...