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Microplastic pollution linger in rivers for years before entering oceans

Water dynamics can trap lightweight microplastics that otherwise might float. Microplastics can deposit and linger within riverbeds for as long as seven years before washing into the ocean, a new…

Creating a reference map to explore the electronic device mimicking brain activity

Maps are essential for exploring trackless wilderness or vast expanses of ocean. The same is true for scientific studies that try to open up new fields and develop brand-new devices….

World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

Researchers detect around 60 million nests of Antarctic icefish over a 240 square kilometres area in the Weddell Sea. Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic…

Algal Sugar – Tiny Bonds with Great Effects

Those who are interested in climate change and wish to understand how algae in the oceans bonds with carbohydrates need to take a look at sugar. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann is…

How unstable is the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?

Polarstern expedition explores the Earth’s history of Antarctica; the expedition launches the new Polarstern app. On 6 January, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town in South Africa…

How the Amazon basin waters the Atacama Desert

For the first time, the Amazon basin could be identified as dominant source region for water precipitating in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. From the rainforest, elevated water vapour…

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