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Improving carbon sequestration in coastal ecosystems

Research network sea4soCiety with participation of LUH investigates innovative approaches to climate regulation in Germany and the tropics

14.03.2022 ·
Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea

Sponges grow in large numbers and to impressive size on the peaks of extinct underwater volcanoes

09.02.2022 · MPI-MM / GEOMAR / AWI / CAU / MARUM
The “Plastification” of the Ocean

WWF releases study on the effects of plastic pollution on marine species and ecosystems

08.02.2022 · AWI / WWF
From the German Bight into the deep sea: The amazing migration of tope

Scientists from the Thünen Institute have demonstrated that the domestic shark species displays a change in swimming behavior when migrating from the shallow North Sea into the ocean

07.02.2022 · THÜNEN
World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

Researchers detect around 60 million nests of Antarctic icefish over a 240 square kilometres area in the Weddell Sea

13.01.2022 · AWI
From the oilfield to the lab: How a special microbe turns oil into gases

In collaboration with a team from China, researchers from Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have successfully cultivated “miracle microbe” in the laboratory

24.12.2021 · MPI-MM
Microorganisms produce elemental carbon

Purely biological: Researchers identify a new kind of pure carbon production by microorganisms

04.11.2021 · MARUM / MPI-MM
A natural CO2-sink thanks to symbiotic bacteria

Like many land plants, seagrasses live in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria

04.11.2021 · MPI-MM
Seagrass meadows act as vibrio catchers

Kiel researchers prove another service of the Baltic Sea ecosystem

15.09.2021 · GEOMAR
Groundwater resources off the coast of Malta

Researchers discover fresh water in the Mediterranean Sea

06.08.2021 · GEOMAR
New comment in Nature: Advancing an equitable and effective conservation of biodiversity

OECMs - the acronym for "Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures" - are a valuable policy tool in the new global biodiversity agreement, along with the establishment of protected areas.

05.08.2021 · ZMT
A long day for microbes, and the rise of oxygen on Earth

An international team of scientists around Judith Klatt from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, proposes an intriguing explanation: that increasing daylength, resulting from slowing Earth rotation, may have allowed microbes to release more oxygen, thereby creating the air we breathe today.

02.08.2021 · MPI-MM
Fully booked at the bottom of the sea

There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains

20.07.2021 · MPI-MM
Enzyme skyscrapers help microbes grow

Scientists determine structure of an important nitrite-oxidizing enzyme in the global biological nitrogen cycle

15.07.2021 · MPI-MM
Researching climate change in Greenland

Hereon scientists study marine ecosystem tipping points on international research expedition

13.07.2021 · hereon

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News

All press releases and news from the DAM

Improving carbon sequestration in coastal ecosystems

Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea

The “Plastification” of the Ocean

From the German Bight into the deep sea: The amazing migration of tope

World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

From the oilfield to the lab: How a special microbe turns oil into gases

Microorganisms produce elemental carbon

A natural CO2-sink thanks to symbiotic bacteria

Seagrass meadows act as vibrio catchers

Groundwater resources off the coast of Malta

New comment in Nature: Advancing an equitable and effective conservation of biodiversity

A long day for microbes, and the rise of oxygen on Earth

Fully booked at the bottom of the sea

Enzyme skyscrapers help microbes grow

Researching climate change in Greenland

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All press releases and news from the DAM

Improving carbon sequestration in coastal ecosystems

Gi­ant sponge gar­dens dis­covered on seamounts in the Arc­tic deep sea

The “Plastification” of the Ocean

From the German Bight into the deep sea: The amazing migration of tope

World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

From the oilfield to the lab: How a special microbe turns oil into gases

Microorganisms produce elemental carbon

A natural CO2-sink thanks to symbiotic bacteria

Seagrass meadows act as vibrio catchers

Groundwater resources off the coast of Malta

New comment in Nature: Advancing an equitable and effective conservation of biodiversity

A long day for mi­crobes, and the rise of oxy­gen on Earth

Fully booked at the bot­tom of the sea

En­zyme sky­scrapers help mi­crobes grow

Researching climate change in Greenland

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Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea

A long day for microbes, and the rise of oxygen on Earth

Fully booked at the bottom of the sea

Enzyme skyscrapers help microbes grow