in the Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea is currently changing faster than it has in millennia. There are already various introduced species of flora and fauna that were never seen in the North Sea 100 years ago [...] detected on the North Sea coast to date and have now permanently established themselves there. 1 or 2 species Every year 1 or 2 newly introduced species are discovered on the North Sea coast. 16 sampling [...] the German North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, 16 sampling stations are used to analyze biotic communities and record new species on an annual basis. FAQ How do new species reach the Wadden Sea? What non-native

consequences. Find out more Climate Sea Biodiversity North Sea The changing face of the North Sea Hardly any other sea in the world is used as intensively as the North Sea. And it remains a treasure trove [...] to climate change, the sea at our doorstep is now undergoing unprecedented changes. Find out more Biodiversity Climate Sea North Sea New species in the Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea is currently changing faster [...] component of Arctic and Antarctic habitats. Find out more Sea Climate Arctic Antarctic North Sea Global sea level on the rise Around the world, sea level is rising. This poses a risk for the nearly 600 million

comes to food, salinity and water depth, which has allowed it to migrate farther north from the North Sea and the North Atlantic, where it finds favourable living conditions e.g. off the coast of Svalbard [...] to these biotic communities when the sea ice disappears? What problems will sea-ice retreat mean for polar bears? What will rising temperatures and the dwindling sea ice mean for fish like the polar cod [...] there will be limits to how far north the fishing fleets can expand their activities: although the high seas of the Arctic will become more and more accessible as the sea ice dwindles, on 25 June 2021 an

in the North Sea. 4 millimetres Since 1993, the sea level in the North Sea has risen by 4 millimetres per year. FAQ Could global sea-level rise endanger the Wadden Sea on the coast of the North Sea? How [...] Pixabay) The North Sea – much more than just a marginal sea The North Sea is a shallow shelf sea, bordering on land on three sides. In geographic terms, it is considered to be a small marginal sea of the Atlantic [...] climate change affecting bacteria in the North Sea? How is biodiversity changing in the mudflats? What is the AWI North Sea Office? How is the sea grass in the North Sea doing? Is the underwater forest off

Coastal waters North Sea In the past century, around 1.6 million tons of conventional and 250 000 tons of chemical warfare agents (CWA) were dumped in the coastal waters of the North and Baltic Seas. Most of [...] 300,000 tons of explosives dumped in the Baltic Sea Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Policy advice Federal/Länder Committee on the North Sea and Baltic Sea (BLANO) Member of the Technical Working Group [...] share of 300,000 tons lies in the Baltic Sea, especially in the Bay of Kiel and Lübeck, while around 1.3 million tons of munitions are still suspected in the North Sea. Areas off Spiekeroog and Wangerrooge

Linkages between Arctic and mid-Latitude weather and climate: unraveling the impact of changing sea ice and sea surface temperatures, Polar-amplification-MIP (PAMIP) Virtual workshop, online, 30 March 2021 [...] Linkages between Arctic and Mid-Latitude Weather and Climate: Unraveling the Impact of Changing Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperatures, EMS Annual Meeting 2021, online, 5-9 September 2021. Arosio, C., Rozanov [...] Agenda Wednesday Introduction and meeting logistics A case study of the mid-November 2019 cyclone north of Greenland during MOSAiC (Cheng) Quality assessment of Arctic satellite ozone data and the impact

Molecular Sea Ice Ecology Polar oceans are seasonally covered by sea ice with an average size of the continent of North America. Despite harsh conditions therein, sea ice and its lower surface can carry [...] typically dominated by Diatoms. Sea ice can provide important primary production to polar oceans via these communities, although they are often very patchy. In times of declining sea ice coverage it is a major [...] major challenge to determine current sea ice biodiversity, functions provided by its biota, and the future of sea ice communities in a warming ocean. We address these questions through analyses of total

planned open-ocean infrastructure FRAM (FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring) is permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the provision of near real-time data on Earth system dynamics, climate [...] and ecosystem change. The FRAM Ocean Observing System will be installed in the gateway between the North Atlantic and the Central Arctic, representing a highly climate-sensitive and rapidly changing region [...] towards a better understanding of the effects of change in ocean circulation, water mass properties and sea-ice retreat on Arctic marine ecosystems and their main functions and services. FRAM will implement

Over centuries the deep sea was considered as a vast, desert-like environment with low number of species. However, in recent years knowledge about biodiversity in the deep sea has started to increase and [...] life. Biodiversity in the deep sea depends among other parameters on water depth, which in turn is linked to food availability. In contrast to the past assumption that deep-sea organisms live in very stable [...] changes in a the transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling deep-sea biodiversity, the Alfred Wegener Institute established

in quantitative assessment of the impact of bottom trawling on carbon storage in the North Sea and global shelf seas was recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience .
[...] Flatfish and shrimp are caught in the North Sea by using trawls that are dragged across the seabed. This releases carbon into the water and carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, as shown by the latest