Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

Media Releases 2021

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An octopus approaches a coral grown on basalt fragments in a water depth of 900 meters, recorded with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Aug 25, 2021

Research Mission Investigates the Ocean as a Carbon Store

How can the ocean help to effectively contain climate change? This question forms the core of the first research mission of the German Marine Research ...

Oceans play a vital role in global climate processes. How this can be actively used to limit climate change will now be investigated by DAM's first research mission. Photo: Ralf Prien/IOW

Aug 2, 2021

Mitigating climate change more effectively with oceans

The problem is well known: more and more carbon is entering the atmosphere due to human activities. And the atmosphere is heating up. The climate is ...

The German research vessel Polarstern in heavy seas in the Drake Passage. Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge

Jun 24, 2021

Antarctic Circumpolar Current Flows More Rapidly in Warm Phases

Our planet’s strongest ocean current, which circulates around Antarctica, plays a major role in determining the transport of heat, salt and nutrients in ...

The samples studied come from a core recovered by researchers in Morocco's Lake Tislit. Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier

May 31, 2021

Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara

Researchers have developed a new concept to explain the phenomenon known as Green Sahara. To achieve this, they first studied the fossil pollen and leaf ...

The MERIAN research vessel surrounded by drift ice. Experts from the University of Bremen actively contributed to the MARE:N concept paper “Polarregionen im Wandel”. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

May 20, 2021

University of Bremen Contributes to Important Climate Paper

Researchers from MARUM and the University of Bremen actively contributed to the coordination and formulation of the concept paper “Polarregionen im ...

The Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vents – the “home” of the studied methane-oxidizing microorganisms. The heat loving microorganisms thrive under the orange microbial mat in the background. The high temperatures of the rising waters blur parts of the image.

May 6, 2021

Strange isotopes: Scientists from Germany and Israel explain a methane isotope paradox of the seafloor

Deep down in the seafloor anaerobic microbes consume large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas when it enters atmosphere. Even though this process ...

Icebergs in the Sermilik Fjord in Greenland. Photo: Donald Slater

May 5, 2021

Limit global warming to 1.5°C and halve the land ice contribution to sea level this century

New research from a large international community of scientists predicts that sea level rise from the melting of ice could be halved this century if we ...

Manganese nodule with a deep-sea sponge. Expedition SO242. Photo: ROV KIEL6000, GEOMAR

Apr 7, 2021

Assessing the Impacts of Nodule Mining on the Deep-Sea Environment

Joint press release of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Alfred-Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, ...