publication of the scientific journal Marine Pollution Bulletin by Dr. Melanie Bergmann, biologist and deep-sea expert at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association [...] Helgoland will analyse them for micro-plastics,” says Melanie Bergmann. Micro-plastics can be ingested by marine animals including commercially harvested prawns and fish and enter the human food chain.  

During [...] Bergmann / Michael Klages (2012): Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN. Marine

Pollution Bulletin, available online at:  dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.09.018

tiny microplastic particles per kilogram. Further information Alles zum Thema marine debris AWI Themenseite "marine debris" als RSS abonnieren [...] Marine Litter “The Litter is a Whole New Dimension” AWI biologist Lars Gutow shares insights into his expeditions to the North Sea and Sargasso Sea, where he investigated how marine litter is spreading [...] al authorities and political decision-makers Free download: book about marine litter AWI scientists published a book about marine litter. You can download it free of charge. Compact knowledge 10 Questions

collected plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the Alfred Wegener Institute. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore [...] ecosystems like the Arctic.
Plastic debris is a global problem that even the uninhabited wilderness of the High North is not immune to: considerable amounts of plastic debris have been observed floating in [...] Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) now offers a first, valuable insights. “In 2016 we began working with citizens to investigate the composition of plastic debris on Arctic shores,” says AWI

bloodstream. And the flood of debris is bound to get worse: global plastic production is expected to double by 2045.The consequences are serious. Today, virtually all marine organisms investigated – from [...] stress and inflammations in the tissues of marine animals, and even runs in the blood of humans.”

The available data on potential feedback effects between plastic debris and climate change is particularly thin [...] Marine Litter
Even the High North can’t escape the global threat of plastic pollution. An international review study just released by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows, the flood of plastic has reached

Institute have now reported this in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Debris in the Arctic Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany “Citizen Science” [...] front. An expedition report News Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks Microbial communities in marine sediments are able to use ancient material as a carbon source. Although they prefer fresh organic [...] of five years, citizens who went on sailing cruises to the Arctic surveyed and collected plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the AWI. Alles zum Thema

What are the risks of marine plastic? Deadly traps: marine debris (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Given how diverse marine plastic is, it can also have a variety of effects on marine life. Larger pieces [...] microplastics come from? Question 9: What are the economic impacts of marine litter? Question 10: How can we prevent the spread of marine litter? [...] which sea turtles can get tangled in and ultimately drown. Experts are currently discussing whether marine litter still “only” kills individual animals, or if it might even endanger entire populations. A

and his beautiful wife Thetis. All the unbaptised “land lubbers” among us were baptised with new marine names, in accordance with seafaring traditions. Each person received a beautiful certificate with [...] on board: Dr. Inga Kirstein from the AAU, Aalborg, in Denmark we were on the lookout for plastic debris. In the middle of last week we transversed the edge of an area which is known to be a type of plastic [...] therefore a growing threat for humans and nature. Most plastic types are poorly degradable in the marine environment. They become brittle and subsequently break down in small particles, so called microplastics

influence of the Earth’s orbital parameters on major ice rafting. Analyses of coarse-grained ice-rafted debris and planktonic foraminifers revealed a strong reaction to the precession signal. Since 130,000 yr [...] of surface seawater. Both situations result in a southward penetration of polar water. Thus, the marine record of dropstones documents ice rafting not only during Weichselian stades but also during cold [...] Team Sediments in the North Atlantic ocean contain a series of layers that are rich in ice-rafted debris and unusually poor in foraminifera1. Here we present evidence that the most recent six of these ‘Heinrich

from? Question 8: What are the risks of marine plastic? Question 9: What are the economic impacts of marine litter? Question 10: How can we prevent the spread of marine litter? [...] and 60 pieces of plastic drift in an area of one square kilometre; most of it is small pieces of debris ranging from one to two centimetres in length. At first blush, that may not seem like that much garbage

Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) were able [...] said Pahnke, the head of the Max Planck Research Group for Marine Isotope Geochemistry based at the ICBM and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, explaining that each layer of water [...] Fröllje of the ICBM – the two main authors of the study – extracted tiny teeth and other skeletal debris of fossil fish from the sediment to analyse their content of isotopes of the rare earth metal neodymium