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In Hamburg’s port, you can sometimes see fish gasping for air just below the water’s surface. This is a sign that there isn’t much oxygen in the water. This becomes life-threatening for them when the level falls below three milligrams of oxygen per liter. In summer 2014, the level was below this value for several days. The...

In order to limit global warming, in the future greenhouse gases will have to be removed from the atmosphere – it’s the only way to achieve climate targets. One way of doing so would be to permanently store carbon dioxide underground. However, geophysicist Prof. Christian Hübscher has repeatedly found problems and leaks at...