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East Antarctica's Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years, and researchers at the University of California, Irvine and…

Thanks to a new algorithm, researchers at the AWI can now use satellite data to determine in which parts of the ocean certain types of phytoplankton are…

Despite significant advances in prevention and treatment of cancer, year after year there is a steady increase in the number of deaths caused by malignancy.

In the sunlit surface layer of the ocean, photosynthetic microalgae such as diatoms convert more carbon dioxide into biomass than Earth’s tropical forests.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan–the most powerful quake to hit the country in modern times, and the fourth most…

Unfortunately, our knowledge of weather-timescale extreme events (i.e., paleoweather occurring in days or even hours and minutes), such as tropical cyclones,…