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Global warming will exacerbate soil droughts in Europe - droughts will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people. If the earth warms by three degrees Celsius, extreme events - such as the drought which struck large parts of ...

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, (BMBF) and WASCAL have organized a one-day stakeholders workshop to share views, experiences and ideas on how renewable energies can be used to contribute to the development and implementation of ...

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Researchers from Ireland and the United Kingdom have studied 233 fish, of which nearly three-quarters had tiny plastic particles called microplastics in their stomachs. The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

On 14th March 2018 ArnikaHessen, a joint project of the Botanical Gardens Marburg, Hochschule Geisenheim University and the Philipps University Marburg, was officially honoured as a project of the UN-Decade on Biodiversity. The award was presented by Dr. ...

With a length of around 400 kilometers, the world’s largest contiguous cold-water coral structure stretches along the seafloor off the coast of Mauretania. Dr. Claudia Wienberg of MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of ...

Over many decades lead (Pb) has been released into the atmosphere due to human activities, such as combustion of leaded fuel. A group of researchers led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now been able to show that following the ...

Gas hydrates are ice-like compounds of water molecules with gases such as methane. They occur in large quantities in the continental slopes of ocean margins. Due to the enclosed methane, they are considered a potential source of energy. Funded by the ...

Researchers from the Universities of Bremen and Innsbruck show in a recent study that the further melting of glaciers cannot be prevented in the current century - even if all emissions were stopped now. However, due to the slow reaction of glaciers to ...

Stro­matolites are among the old­est fossils with 3.5 bil­lion years. Up to now, however, lime de­pos­its have only oc­curred in shal­low seas with wa­ter depths of up to ten meters. The lime lay­ers can only grow if mi­croor­gan­isms that carry out ...

In a seven-year laboratory study, Dr. Christian Knoblauch from Universität Hamburg's Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) and an international team have shown, for the first time, that significantly more methane is produced by thawing ...

On the seafloor of the shallow coastal regions north of Siberia, microorganisms produce methane when they break down plant remains. If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, it can also become trapped in the sea ice that forms in these coastal ...

The world's second-largest ice shelf was the destination for a POLARSTERN expedition that ended in Punta Arenas, Chile on 14th March 2018. Oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with German and international colleagues, have collected ...

In winter, cold water masses in the North Atlantic sink from the sea surface into the deep ocean. This process, known as convection, is one of the key components of the large-scale ocean circulation. Based on long-term observations, scientists from the ...

On 15 March, the AWI research aeroplane Polar 5 will depart for Greenland. Concentrating on the furthest northeast region of the island, an international team of researchers will spend the next four weeks studying how the Arctic is changing. In the course ...