No rain at all or rainfall which significantly fluctuates is a major problem for farmers, since long periods of drought increase the risk of a poor harvest and make nutrient input difficult.

The small town of Wilhelmshaven on Germany's North Sea coast, with its population of only 81,000, is already the country's largest naval base. But with its new Jade-Weser-Port container hub, Wilhelmshaven ...

Europe s newest container port facility is scheduled to open in August in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and unlike its neighbors Hamburg and Bremerhaven, the new port will be capable of handling the world s largest vessels without depending upon tidal variations.

Operators, developers and researchers will present in an international conference from 8 to 10 May 2012 in Bremerhaven the operational experience and test results of the first German offshore wind farm "alpha ventus".

( Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres ) The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions are made by climate researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association in the coming ...

Warming climate predicted to trigger collapse of Filchner-Ronne shelf by 2100

Savannah's historic riverfront always has its own charm. Hundreds of thousands of visitors a year stroll the cobblestone streets where British Gen.

An Antarctic area previously thought stable may be at risk as ocean currents undermine a floating frozen shelf and threaten to push part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into retreat, according to papers in Nature journals.

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet, new research shows.

:Items that were reported to have been stolen from an antiques dealer's space at a group shop here sometime between April 26 and 29 may turn up on the fields of Brimfield this week.