of regional temperature fluctuations over the last 8000 years. The consequence: In addition to anthropogenic warming additional changes in regional climates are expected due to natural variability.

Over the past 200 years, our planet’s oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As a result, their acidity has increased by nearly 30 percent their

Antarctic natural resources is currently (still) prohibited under the Antarctic Treaty. Hence few anthropogenic acoustic sources exist in this region while the sea ice cover absorps sound more efficiently than [...] reducing ambient sound levels further. Spectrogram of 20060829-2207_PALAOA (Photo: OZA AWI) Anthropogenic sound Ship noise Polarstern in sea ice (Photo: AWI) Twice a year, the German research vessel

Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture, fishing and industry, sparked an unprecedented loss of biodiversity that continues

international partners, we promote a better understanding of the causes and effects of natural and anthropogenic changes, like climate change. Together with the Helmholtz Association’s Earth and Environment

Gerdts, Matthew James Slater (ZAF)) AWI Strategy funding project OMAP - Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure: Does microplastic limit the tolerance to climate change of ecologically and economically

affected by climate change but - as an important economic region - also subject to numerous direct anthropogenic influences like tourism, fishery operations, shipping traffic, pollution & eutrophication from [...] set-up of wind farms at sea. With our focus on microbes these two aspects, climate change and anthropogenic pressure are under investigation in this topic. Vibrio are consistent members of the marine microbial

Gerdts, Matthew James Slater (ZAF)) AWI Strategy funding project OMAP - Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure: Does microplastic limit the tolerance to climate change of ecologically and economically

Global Carbon Budget - Ocean Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” [...] land sink have approximately balanced. The oceans are therefore the most important net sink for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. The ocean in the Global Carbon Budget Less than half of all CO 2 emissions remain [...] land sink have approximately balanced. The oceans are therefore the most important net sink for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Each year, we collect estimates of the ocean carbon sink from global ocean bi

the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide and are thus closely coupled to climate variability. Anthropogenic intervention alters the natural climate variability and raises the question of how environmental