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Tatiana Ilyina at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg

Tatiana Ilyina Receives Nansen Medal

The Fridtjof Nansen Medal, one of the most important prizes for oceanography, will be awarded to Tatiana Ilyina, Professor at the University of…

In years to come, the Arctic Ocean will absorb less CO2 than expected

We humans benefit from the oceans’ tremendous capacity to absorb greenhouse gases. Due to the low temperature of the water, the Arctic Ocean absorbs…

 An artist illustration of a ‘snowball Earth’.

What happens after a snowball Earth melts?

When a snowball Earth deglaciates, the planet transitions rapidly into a hot "supergreenhouse" climate that persists for a hundred thousand years or…