On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...

It is estimated that about 300,000 metric tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) remain in the German Baltic Sea. Most of this ...

The south-western Baltic Sea has about 3,000 kilograms of dissolved toxic chemicals released from unexploded ordnance, ...

Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...

The south-western Baltic Sea has about 3,000 kilograms of dissolved toxic chemicals released from unexploded ordnance, according to a new study. The substances were detected in almost all water ...

Turbidity currents are an important natural process that often goes unnoticed: these powerful currents beneath the ocean ...

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Elizabeta Briski, a marine biologist at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean ...

Kiel. How dangerous are submarine landslides in deep-sea canyons? To answer this question, the German research vessel SONNE sets sail today from Wellington, New Zealand, for a multi-week expedition in ...

Kiel. An international team of researchers led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Durham University has successfully captured the internal structure of the longest-runout sediment ...

Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. The mussel and crustacean species studied were able to adapt to disturbed environments, ...