ENDANGERED ANIMALS LIGHT UP EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
Raising awareness The stated aim of the “Projecting Change on the Empire State Building” initiative is to raise awareness about the plight of endangered animals from around the world....
SO BEAUTIFUL, SO STRANGE
Everything started… …with a five-headed eggplant. Diversity Just a few examples from the Mutato series. Massive collection The Mutato series consists of thousands of pictures –...
HONG KONG’S JIA JIA BECOMES WORLD’S OLDEST PANDA
Celebrating in style The equivalent of more than 100 years old in human terms, Jia Jia was presented with a towering birthday cake made from ice and fruit juice with the number 37 carved on top in...
International Tiger Day 2015
Vastly reduced numbers A century ago, there were around 100,000 tigers throughout their range. Today, an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 exist in the wild. Three out of eight subspecies are already...
EU satellite gears up for data flood
Europe’s Sentinel-2a satellite is on course to go into full operation in early or mid-October. The spacecraft, which takes visible and infrared pictures of the Earth, was launched in June and...
Summer in Germany: Berlin brawls and autobahn crawls
Rivers run dry as summer heats up Multiple river cruises have been canceled because of extremely low Danube water levels. Some of ship operator Uniworld’s passengers are stuck in the German...
Meet Europe’s climate heroes
Fighting for forests Mori and Mila are determined to save Hambacher Forst, an ancient forest in Germany, which is facing the chop. German power company RWE wants to expand the country’s...
COAL-PIT PARTYING: FESTIVALS IN THE IRON CITY
Dancing the night away There are few places in the world where you can party next to huge steel excavators on top of an old coal-pit. But for the past decade or so in the iron city of Ferropolis,...
