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Effects of bottom trawling
IOW leads large Baltic Sea field experiment with four research vessels. On July 16, 2024, a 19-day research cruise will start in the Baltic Sea led by the Leibniz Institute…
Found with Webb: a potentially habitable icy world
A international team of astronomers led by Université de Montréal has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising “super-Earth” covered in…
New carbon storage technology is fastest of its kind
A new way to store carbon captured from the atmosphere developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin works much faster than current methods without the harmful chemical…
The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets
The “eternal” ice in Antarctica is melting faster than previously assumed, particularly in West Antarctica more than East Antarctica. The root for this could lie in its formation. Sediment samples…
Norway can lead the fight against plastic pollution
Norway’s long, rugged coastline – more than 28,953 kilometers long, including the fjords – suffers from plastic pollution even though it is so remote. It’s a problem plaguing all nations…
Microplastics, estrogens & Co
Ship expedition for the first time investigates “new” pollutants in the Indian Ocean. On July 16, 2024, the German research vessel SONNE starts a three-week expedition to previously little-studied regions…