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"Act boldly and consistently now!" What ZMT researchers say about the IPCC systhesis report
On Monday (20/3/2023), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its synthesis report in Interlaken, Switzerland. The report serves as a basis for countries worldwide to agree on and implement further climate protection...
New study in Nature Communications: Warming and overfishing could switch the role of fishes in the marine carbon cycle
Bony fish are more often recognised as food sources than as carbon regulators. They provide an array of services relevant to climate change mitigation. For instance, they store carbon within their bodies as they grow and export it to deep seas...
ZMT Director Raimund Bleischwitz on the high seas treaty: "A real breakthrough in difficult times!"
Over the weekend, the United Nations agreed the first international treaty to protect the high seas. For more than 10 years, UN member states had been negotiating such an agreement to protect biodiversity in the high seas (Marine Biodiversity of...
ZMT in the media: jellyfish crisps and algae pesto
The world population is growing. Eight billion people need to be fed, preferably sustainably. Our current food production pollutes the environment and nature. Does the solution lie in the sea?
Two TV documentaries again feature ZMT and its...
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