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The preservation of species diversity during times of climate change requires that individual species will be able to adapt to new environmental conditions, especially warmer temperatures. How quickly adaptation occurs is vital. Many calcifying species ...

Sub-Decadal North Atlantic Oscillation variability in observations and the Kiel Climate Model

Increasing ocean acidification could double the mortality of newly-hatched cod larvae. This would put populations of this economically important fish species more and more under pressure if exploitation remains unchanged. For the first time ever, members ...

Global warming results in fundamental changes to important ocean currents. As scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute show in a new study, wind-driven subtropical boundary currents in the northern and southern hemisphere are not only going to ...

Universities bear the responsibility for social challenges. In order to be able to develop solutions for climate change, scarcity of resources and biodiversity losses, universities need to be transformed according to the guiding principle of sustainable ...

Reliable forecasting is crucial in reducing the possible catastrophic impacts of changes in monsoon patterns. Improving the prognoses at the regional scale is a great challenge in monsoon research. In a summary article appearing in the online issue of ...

New Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) „One Planet – One Ocean: From Science to Solutions“ will start next Monday. Registration is free: http://www.oceanmooc.org

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From global sea-level rise to extreme events like floods or droughts, the third Potsdam Summer School from 5 – 14 September 2016 will focus on long-term climate change impacts and the challenge of dealing with them.

Four research projects investigating the impact of plastic particles on the marine environment were selected for funding from ten member countries of the Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans). Researchers meet ...

German and Indonesian researchers discussed results of the research programm Science for the Protection of Indonesian Coastal Marine Ecosystems in a two-day final conference on the island of Bali. The research was funded by the German Federal ...