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Research aircraft Polar 5 returned from spring measurements in the high Arctic

Simultaneous measurements with a large number of sensors on three planes underneath the CryoSat-2 satellite led to unique data records. Furthermore, the…

Scientists discover animal-like urea cycle in tiny diatoms in the ocean

Scientists have discovered that marine diatoms, tiny phytoplankton abundant in the sea, have an animal-like urea cycle, and that this cycle enables the diatoms…

Clouds, a weapon against climate change?

Some clouds cool the earth. But how are these clouds formed? How does the chemistry of the ocean affect their formation? Is this process affected by climate…

Marine Lab Tracks Pollutants in Dolphins and Beluga Whales

In papers recently published online by the journal Environmental Science & Technology, one research team looked at the levels of persistent organic pollutants…

As Good as Gold

So where does their iron come from? New research published by “Nature Geoscience” points to a source on the seafloor: minute particles (called nanoparticles)…

'Fool's Gold' from the deep is fertilizer for ocean life

Similar to humans, the bacteria and tiny plants living in the ocean need iron for energy and growth. But their situation is quite different from ours–for one,…

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