The Reinhard Süring Foundation's 2025 Research Award goes to Leipzig-based atmospheric researcher Dr. Cristofer Jiménez for his contributions to a remote sensing technology that makes it possible to study the interactions between particles and clouds much better than ever before. The so-called dual-field-of-view polarisation lidar is based on two different aperture angles, which are used to observe and compare the reflections of laser beams in the atmosphere. Every three years, the Reinhard Süring Foundation Research Prize honours young scientists for outstanding work in a subfield of meteorology. In 2025, the prize was awarded for "New techniques, methods and applications of remote sensing of the atmosphere".

Rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as 73% and 84% by the end of this century.

The fossilized remains of a very unlucky bird that lived about 120 million years ago reveal something that's rarely clear from fossils: the animal's cause of death.  The cluster of rocks in the bird's throat tells scientists that it probably choked to death. The reason why this bird was swallowing rocks in the first place is more of a mystery, and one that gets into the bigger picture of dinosaur and bird evolution.