Ecology, The Environment and Conservation

This complex theme deals primarily with interactions between organisms and the environmental factors that impact them, but to a greater extent between individual inanimate environmental factors.

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Full Speed Ahead for Climate-friendly Coastal Research

Federal Minister of Research Stark-Watzinger christens research cutter Uthörn. Today, German Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger christened the Alfred Wegener Institute’s new research vessel Uthörn at the…

Vegetation Regulates Energy Exchange in the Arctic

Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land and…

Antifouling coatings: Jump-starting coral larvae?

When algae, mussels or barnacles settle on ship hulls, this can lead to billions of euros worth of damage. To counteract this, they are treated with antifouling coatings. A scientist…

TanSat’s first attempt to detect human-caused CO2 is successful

Chinese and European satellite missions to advance global carbon dioxide monitoring. An international research team has analyzed measurements from the TanSat mission and the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor mission to identify…

Discovery of new ecosystem

‘The Trapping Zone’ – creating oasis of life in the Maldives. The Nekton Maldives Mission, involving researchers from the University of Oxford, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem…

Methane-eating ‘borgs’ have been assimilating earth’s microbes

A newly discovered type of transferrable DNA structure with a sci-fi name appears to play a role in balancing atmospheric methane. In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded…

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