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Media kit

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News and press releases

11 Aug 2025

EMBL expands research expeditions to freshwater ecosystems, thanks to philanthropy

With its expeditions and mobile labs, EMBL is pioneering a new era of field-based molecular life sciences. Supported by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung and many partners, these ‘labs on wheels’ enable the …

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28 Jul 2025

TREC partner snapshot: University of Basque Country Plentzia Marine Station

A ‘supersite’ for field research and public outreach provided optimal environment for exchange, as we find out in this interview.

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13 Jun 2025

TREC partner snapshot: Tallinn University of Technology

Estonia may be one of EMBL’s newest member states, but thanks to the Tallinn University of Technology, the Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) project relished not just field sampling and outreach o…

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13 May 2025

TREC partner snapshot: Tara Ocean Foundation

Tara Ocean Foundation’s Executive Director Romain Troublé offers his insights on the TREC project, as part of a new series spotlighting TREC partners.

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24 Jan 2025

How have human activities disrupted the ecosystems of Europe’s coasts?

The Paleocore project, led by the French marine institute Ifremer and part of the TREC expedition, aims to study marine sediments to understand the impact of major historical events on ecosystems.

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