02/05/2024 | More than 1,500 scientists, politicians and decision-makers, representatives of the private sector and civil society went to the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona from April 10-12. Scientists, politicians and policy-makers, representatives of...
On April 24, ZMT's lab teams had set up cool experiments at the institute for 18 pupils from Bremen and Lower Saxony. For Girls' and Boys' Day, the ZMT colleagues each year organise an exciting programme for the children and they do so with great...
17/04/2024 | According to scientists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), the world's coral reefs are currently experiencing another global coral bleaching event. Events like this...
17/04/2024 | The Sahel region is a climatic hotspot as it lies right between the moist tropics and the dry subtropics - thus, even small shifts in climate zones can lead to dramatic changes in water availability and its excess there. Yet, there are hardly any...
As a result of exponential growth over the past decade, there are now a number of studies looking at how mangroves fix, convert, store and export carbon or CO2. So how well do we understand the carbon cycle in mangroves today? The publication of an...
16/04/2024 | A new publication from the Mangrove Ecology working group on the topic of blue carbon examines the temporal course of carbon storage and stocks in reforested and natural mangrove forests. The work is an important contribution to the BMBF-funded...
12/04/2024 | As the UN Ocean Decade Conference is taking place in Barcelona from 10th to 12th April 2024, members of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) have come together to highlight the need for sustained, operational, and coordinated...
From 10 to 12 April the first UN Ocean Decade Conference will take place in Barcelona. It is the finale of the Ocean Decade Week that will bring together the global ocean community. More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the conference which...
25/03/2024 | A new book from Springer Verlag sheds light on climate change in Germany. With contributions from over 126 experts and an interdisciplinary approach that brings together all relevant specialist areas and topics, it presents the development,...
21/03/2024 | At its meeting on 19 March 2024, the Senate of the Leibniz Association made far-reaching decisions a number of funding formats across institutes. For the first time, the Senate has approved three Leibniz Labs. The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine...