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Ocean Acidification
"We are talking about a deadly trio"
Ocean acidification – The evil twin of climate warming
Facts on Ocean Acidification
"Ocean acidification is the evil little brother of global warming"
Success story of a resistance fighter
Tracing ocean acidification
A view inside – A fish in NMR
Swimming in acidic water
Sea ice
The most productive algae in the Arctic
Sea-ice photo galleries
In the Arctic Sea Ice's Kindergarten
Remote Sensing
Life in and underneath sea ice
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Permafrost
The signs of change
Permafrost - An introduction
TanDEM-X satellite image - Changes in permafrost landscapes
The Atlantis of the Arctic
Research at the furthest reaches of civilization
A symbolic tree in the Russian Arctic
The Direct Line to the Arctic Permafrost
Marine Litter
Litterbase
Using Expertise to Combat Marine Litter
litter in the ocean depths
Tracking down microplastic
“The Litter is a Whole New Dimension”
10 Questions, 10 Answers
Marine Litter-Infographic
North Sea
Seegrass in the Wadden Sea
Taking a stroll through the underwater woods
Infographic Invasive Species
Food source and treasure trove
Arctic Ocean
Oceanographic measurements at the 79°North Glacier
Tiny algae, hugely resilient
Polar Predictions
Six questions we always wanted to ask a climate modeler
Interview
Ice Sheets
Infographics Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf
Hot-Water Drilling
E-mails from the Filchner Ice Shelf
New Ice Radar
Ice really is a hot commodity
Greenland's Ice Conveyor Belt
MOSAiC Expedition
Welcome back Polarstern
Interview Wunderlich
Interview with Markus Rex
The Expedition in Numbers
Factsheet Sustainabilty
MOSAiC Countdown
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Biodiversity Summit of the United Nations in Montreal (COP 15)
UN Decade of Ocean Science
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Kohnen Station
Aircraft
Polar 5 + 6
Laboratories
Ice Core Laboratories
Proxy Laboratory
NMR laboratory
C-14 lab
Observatories
Ocean: FRAM
Water: COSYNA
Air: Meteorology
On land: Geophysics
Centre for Scientific Diving
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Earth System Knowledge Platform
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