
A bovine skull greets visitors to the small village of Kirchlotheim, close to the Edersee national park, around midnight, Aug.16.

A bovine skull greets visitors to the small village of Kirchlotheim, close to the Edersee national park, around midnight, Aug.16.

Fresh and older contrails spread over the otherwise blue sky over Frankfurt, Aug.15, contributing to what is called ‘Global Darkening’. According to scientists, our planet has not only been getting warmer, but also darker. Over the past decades the quantity of sunlight that is reaching the earth’s surface might have reduced by 20 percent due to air pollution and aerosols.