The poison threatens humans, animals and plants

The Amazon region is struggling with an invisible enemy: Mercury deposits from gold mining enda...

Reliable environmental protection is essential for sustainable economic growth and the well-being of ourselves, our society, and our oceans. Therefor...

Algae from the group of dinoflagellates have organized their genetic material in an unusal way

The cells of most living things have special str...

Florida Keys & Key West focus on tourism The Florida Keys & Key West Tourism Office is showing visitors the new "Connect & Protect" cam...

Researchers provide instructions and decision aids The Baltic Sea contains a dark legacy of ca. 50 000 tons of dumped chemical warfare agents (CWA)...

Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

If carbon dioxide levels continue to increase in the atmosphere and consequently...

Researchers prove historical bleaching events

As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, coral reefs experience coral bleaching world...

Sea lice treatment has serious side effects

Teflubenzuron is added to the feed of farmed salmon in some cases to treat sea lice infestation. Th...

Many fish and birds have died in the net
 
Just before off Warnemünde divers on behalf of the WWF on 7 August 2018 salvaged a ghost net, w...

Previous regulations for the protection of the deep sea are inadequate

The new deep-sea mining regulations which are under development at the I...

New study points to global problem with explosives chemicals

More than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, countless pieces of ammu...

Element measured in marine environment years after phasing out of leaded fuel

For many decades, lead (Pb) has been released into the atmosphere...

A severe diving accident - but why?

In September 2015, the German diving instructor Matthias U. was on a diving vacation in Safaga in the R...

Wild Atlantic killifish populations have been found to possess the ability to adapt to toxic pollution, according to a new report published in the S...

Farmed fish is heavily contaminated with the chemical ethoxyquin, according to a laboratory study carried out by Greenpeace on fish products like ...

Exposure to sunlight in the event of an oil spill lowers the survival rates of fish that live near the surface during their larval stage.

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