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Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

Researchers fear significant consequences of rising temperatures and sea ice retreat for the most important fish in the Arctic Ocean

09.08.2023 · AWI
Expedition investigates hydrothermal systems in different water depths for the first time

Research cruise with the METEOR starts

08.08.2023 · MARUM
Eyewitnesses to Arctic Change

AWI Director Antje Boetius leads Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic

01.08.2023 · AWI
How eelgrass spread around the world

An international research team led by GEOMAR reconstructs the worldwide colonisation history of the most widespread marine plant

20.07.2023 · GEOMAR
Breathing poison: Microbial life on nitric oxide respiration

In a long-term culture, scientists find and characterize two new microorganisms growing on the toxic gas nitric oxide, reducing it completely to N2.

10.07.2023 · MPI-MM
Miles down for lunch

Deep-sea imagery and observations reveal novel octopus feeding behaviour

10.07.2023 · GEOMAR
METEOR Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

No two black smokers are alike - this is true for the geology as well as for the fluids that emerge from the hydrothermal vents.

08.06.2023 · MARUM
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

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News

All press releases and news from the DAM

Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

Expedition investigates hydrothermal systems in different water depths for the first time

Eyewitnesses to Arctic Change

How eelgrass spread around the world

Breathing poison: Microbial life on nitric oxide respiration

Miles down for lunch

METEOR Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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

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All press releases and news from the DAM

Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

Ex­ped­i­tion in­vest­ig­ates hy­dro­thermal sys­tems in dif­fer­ent wa­ter depths for the first time

Eyewitnesses to Arctic Change

How eelgrass spread around the world

Breath­ing poison: Mi­cro­bial life on nitric ox­ide res­pir­a­tion

Miles down for lunch

MET­EOR Ex­ped­i­tion to the Mid-At­lantic Ridge

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

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Expedition investigates hydrothermal systems in different water depths for the first time

Breathing poison: Microbial life on nitric oxide respiration

METEOR Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

What you count is not necessarily what counts

An Ocean of tiny wonders

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