GEOMAR scientists publish unique data set on the northern Chilean subduction zone. Northern Chile is an ideal natural laboratory to study the origin of earthquakes. Here, the Pacific Nazca plate…
Researchers have developed a global earthquake monitoring system that uses the Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) to measure crustal deformation. The monitoring system within seconds can rapidly assess earthquake magnitude…
Probiotic approaches could protect corals against heat stress. Corals are the backbone of marine ecosystems in the tropics. They are threatened by rising water temperatures caused by global warming and…
– an underestimated problem? The images leave no one cold: giant vortices of floating plastic trash in the world’s oceans with sometimes devastating consequences for their inhabitants – the sobering…
Researchers discover sponge paths on the ocean floor… Sponges: They are considered to be one of the most primitive forms of animal life, because they have neither locomotion organs nor…
Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreading. It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide at its widest point – on a world map, the Red…