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For the first time, the UK and Germany have joined forces to investigate the impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean.

A new joint research project headed by the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) wants to find out how microplastics end up in the water. The project aims to optimise representative water and wastewater sampling procedures. ...

Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone.

130 Scientists meet in Helsingør, Denmark for the Second International Baltic Earth Conference. The Baltic Earth network strives to achieve an improved Earth System understanding of the Baltic Sea region as the basis for science-based management ...

Urban agglomerations are growing rapidly worldwide and new megalopolises are emerging. The dense settlement structures with sometimes millions of people are particularly vulnerable to natural hazards. In the RIESGOS project (Spanish: risks), the Earth ...

Expedition MANGAN 2018 is the ninth cruise of the BGR to the German license area for the exploration of manganese nodules.

The German-American satellite mission, GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On), was successfully launched. On 22 May at 21:47 hours (CEST) the two satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force ...

With the German-American satellite mission GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On), the measurement of the Earth's gravity field and its temporal change will enter “extra time”. Between the years 2002 and 2017, the predecessor ...

More than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, countless pieces of ammunition from this time are still lying – and corroding – in all oceans. Once the casings are damaged, the explosives can release toxic substances into the seawater. A ...

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 ...