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Sea level and monsoon – How do they influence the development of coral islands?

In a new study, researchers from the ZMT found that sea level may not be the only factor playing a role in the fate of threatened islands.

31.05.2023 · ZMT
Our future with the sea

In the Ocean Future Lab, artistic visualisations of what life and the sea would look like in the future have been created. They all have one thing in common: the desire for intact marine environments.

22.05.2023 · DAM
Minimizing the risk of rising sea levels

Researchers of Kiel University model future urban development on European coasts

22.05.2023 · CAU
What you count is not necessarily what counts

A new study focusing on the number of dividing bacterial cells in the North Sea challenges some dogmas about marine microbial life.

22.05.2023 · MPI-MM
An Ocean of tiny wonders

How bacteria thriving on simple storage glycans shape the communities of free-floating microbes during microalgal blooms

15.05.2023 · MPI-MM
Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: Animals can synthesize phytosterols

Study describes marine worms that can synthesize phytosterols de novo, and shows that many other animals have the genes to make these plant sterols.

04.05.2023 · MPI-MM
Sophisticated gene memory

Frankfurt researchers develop new method to genetically compare hundreds of animal species

27.04.2023 · SAM
The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can’t be approached as two separate things

New review study released in the journal Science offers new solutions for combating climate change and biodiversity loss

20.04.2023 · AWI
Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

Their initial findings indicate that sea-ice retreat has had significant effects on the animals’ behaviour.

17.04.2023 · AWI
Measuring plankton growth across the Pacific Ocean

Expedition SO298 crosses the Equatorial Pacific to assess nutrient supply, plankton productivity and ocean carbon uptake

14.04.2023 · GEOMAR
Less Sea Ice, More Herring

Ancient DNA from the ocean floor reveals how climate change could fundamentally transform marine ecosystems in the Arctic

27.03.2023 · AWI
Stones for the climate

A new Hereon study models how dissolved rock affects the sequestration of CO2 in the ocean

27.03.2023 · hereon
International project launched to conserve biodiversity in the Mediterranean region

Researchers will develop management options for better balance of sea urchins and fish in marine forests

20.03.2023 · CAU
Reactive oxygen impacts carbon cycling in tidal sands

Reactive oxygen species have a great impact on mineralization processes in tidal sandflats, study finds.

14.03.2023 · MPI-MM
Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes

On research missions with the research vessel Polarstern, scientists from Germany found bacteria uniquely adapted to geo-energy floating in deep-sea waters.

09.03.2023 · MPI-MM

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News

All press releases and news from the DAM

Sea level and monsoon – How do they influence the development of coral islands?

Our future with the sea

Minimizing the risk of rising sea levels

What you count is not necessarily what counts

An Ocean of tiny wonders

Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: Animals can synthesize phytosterols

Sophisticated gene memory

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can’t be approached as two separate things

Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

Measuring plankton growth across the Pacific Ocean

Less Sea Ice, More Herring

Stones for the climate

International project launched to conserve biodiversity in the Mediterranean region

Reactive oxygen impacts carbon cycling in tidal sands

Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes

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All press releases and news from the DAM

Sea level and monsoon – How do they influence the development of coral islands?

Our future with the sea

Minimizing the risk of rising sea levels

What you count is not ne­ces­sar­ily what counts

An Ocean of tiny won­ders

Gut­less mar­ine worms on a Medi­ter­ranean diet: An­im­als can syn­thes­ize phytoster­ols

Sophisticated gene memory

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can’t be approached as two separate things

Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

Measuring plankton growth across the Pacific Ocean

Less Sea Ice, More Herring

Stones for the climate

International project launched to conserve biodiversity in the Mediterranean region

Re­act­ive oxy­gen im­pacts car­bon cyc­ling in tidal sands

Life in the smoke of un­der­wa­ter vol­ca­noes

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What you count is not necessarily what counts

An Ocean of tiny wonders

Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: Animals can synthesize phytosterols

Reactive oxygen impacts carbon cycling in tidal sands

Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes