Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: danger

Comet cultural history

https://www.mpg.de/22464157/comet-cultural-history

The sight of a bright comet has fascinated people at all times. But what is behind such a celestial spectacle? It was only in modern times that researchers discovered the phenomenon – by which time the tail stars had already had a long career as bringers of bad luck or divine messengers.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko,  however, poses no danger to Earth.

Interview with Susan Trumbore on the future of the Amazon

https://www.mpg.de/20935624/interview-susan-trumbore-amazonas

In the discussion about the climate crisis, there is a lot of talk about tipping points. One example is deforestation in the Amazon. In early August, eight countries in the Amazon met for a summit on the future of the rainforest. In this interview, Susan Trumbore, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, uses her research on the ground to explain how realistic a tipping point is in the Amazon ecosystem and whether the Amazon Summit will bring change.
Activist groups also remind us almost daily of the danger of these tipping points

Health in India – Healing with Amulets and Antibiotics

https://www.mpg.de/4435613/health-system-india

Although Gabriele Alex and Vibha Joshi belong to different departments at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, both scientists are studying the wide range of healing methods used and traditions followed in Indian society. Here they show from different perspectives how the supposed contradictions aren’t really all that incompatible in practice.
deities to which animals are sacrificed and that project a certain wildness and danger