As a geoscientist, climate researcher, and landscape photographer, I’ve spent over 30 years exploring the inner workings of our planet. My goal is to communicate how everything is interconnected—and how fragile those connections are—in ways that are both...
The SPIEGEL-Bestseller book Wunderwerk Erde is a love poem to our planet What makes Earth so unique? How did our planet come into being, how has it changed over the eons of time—and how does it function, both inside and out? Wunderwerk Erde (Wonderwork Earth),...
The living rocks in the Hamelin Pool lagoon of Shark Bay in Western Australia convey a vivid impression of how Earth may have looked like at the beginning of life 3500 million years ago. The black structures in the water are living rocks, called stromatolites. They...
The Marra Mamba banded iron ore of Karijini’s Hamersley Range in northwest Australia is an archaic natural artwork, created by the first microorganisms that inhibited the early Earth. About 2500 million years ago, the shallow seas off the coasts of the Pilbara...
Hamersley Gorge with its picturesque Spa Pool in Karijini National Park in northwest Australia opens a window into the beginning of Earth, into a time when bacteria were the only inhabitants on our young planet. These colorful layers of rock are banded iron ores that...
