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Global Temperature Report – December 2008

Global temperatures during 2008 were influenced by a La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event. Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeDecember…

Lost & Found – prototype CO2-measuring drifter recovered from the tropical Atlantic after 7 weeks of silence

Researchers of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany received a special Christmas gift when their prototype profiling float…

Wallace S. Broecker, pioneer in the study of global warming, wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

In 1975, Broecker published the article “Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” in the journal Science, marking the first ever…

Voracious sponges save reef

Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ensure the reef’s continued existence. Although sponges in these coral caves take up…

LOHAFEX: An Indo-German iron fertilization experiment

The German research vessel Polarstern is currently on its way to the Southwest Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean. The team of 48 scientists (30 from India)…

Decline of Carbon Dioxide-Gobbling Plankton Coincided with Ancient Global Cooling

The findings suggest that after a sudden rise in species numbers, diatoms abruptly declined about 33 million years ago — trends that coincided with severe…

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