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Media Releases 2025

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Thick basaltic rock sequences of the West Indian Deccan Trap volcanic rocks. Photo: Blair Schoene, Princeton University

Mar 7, 2025

Earth's Orbital Rhythms Link Timing of Giant Eruptions and Climate Change

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the ...

Glacial run-off to Arctic Kongsfjorden on Svalbard, Norway. The run-off is visible as brown color in the water due to high concentrations of suspended particles. Depending on the lithogenic and organic material in the run-off, the elemental composition of the water column changes drastically, affecting habitat-forming macroalgae at the base of the Arctic food web.

Mar 7, 2025

The Unforseen Effects of Melting Glaciers on Arctic Coastal Ecosystems

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in ...

The Center for Deep-Sea Research (ZfT) at the University of Bremen. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Mar 5, 2025

New Center for Deep-Sea Research Inaugurated

The new Center for Deep-Sea Research has been opened at the University of Bremen. The 4,000 square-meter facility will allow the resident research groups ...

The image shows the ocean floor at the Polaris hydrothermal field, which is characterized by hydrothermal deposits. Several small chimney structures can also be seen, some of which are covered with microbial mats (in pale yellow). Photo: PS101 AWI OFOS system

Feb 18, 2025

Hot springs in the Arctic

There is a greater variety of hydrothermal systems in the deep sea than previously assumed. This is the result of a recent study on the northernmost ...

Different drill cores show similar rhythmic-recurring patterns, which can be used to determine their age. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, T.Westerhold

Feb 7, 2025

Timing is everything

Being in the right place at the right time is crucial. Clocks help us to coordinate dates and appointments. This is also important for research of the ...

The NASA Mars rover Perseverance has taken a selfie with some of the ten sample tubes that it has placed in a sample depot. The depot is a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study. the depot will serve as a backup in the event that Perseverance can’t deliver its samples to a future robotic lander. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Jan 8, 2025

Life on Mars: the need for sample return

Is there life on Mars? This question will be addressed in a few years using state-of-the-art analysis techniques – when the samples are returned from the ...

A field full of mussels that use carbonate crusts on the sea floor as a base. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Jan 6, 2025

Microbes and minerals: How microorganisms accelerate calcification

Microorganisms are everywhere and have been influencing the Earth's environment for over 3.5 billion years. Researchers from Germany, Austria and Taiwan ...