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AWI researchers demonstrate high natural radi

Manganese nodules at the bottom of the deep sea contain a wealth of valuable metals that are vital to e.g. the electronics and steelmaking industries. Accordingly, these sectors and many countries have pinned their hopes on deep-sea mining to meet the growing demand for raw materials like cobalt and rare-earth elements. In a study just released in the journal Scientific Reports, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute show that such activities could not only have ecological impacts, but also pose health hazards, e.g. in connection with the industrial mining and processing of the nodules. According to their findings, in some cases e.g. the radioactivity of radium-226 in the nodules exceeds the safe limit defined in the German Strahlenschutzverordnung (Radiation Protection Ordinance) one hundred- to one thousand-fold. ....

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Arctic ice algae heavily contaminated with mi

The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains ten times as many microplastic particles as the surrounding seawater. This concentration at the base of the food web poses a threat to creatures that feed on the algae at the sea surface. Clumps of dead algae also transport the plastic with its pollutants particularly quickly into the deep sea - and can thus explain the high microplastic concentrations in the sediment there. Researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have now reported this in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. ....

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New AWI spinoff provides climate-friendly fee

In Las Palmas, Canary Islands, the company MACROCARBON SL was recently founded – a spinoff of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which is developing aquafarms for the macroalgae Sargassum. This algae not only sequesters large amounts of CO2 but can also support the production of new feedstocks for the chemical industry. ....

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