es, with abrupt temperature changes occurring at unprecedented rates. A new study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows how marine heatwaves will also become much more intense and frequent in the Arctic

It is a historic milestone for climate research: an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has successfully drilled a 2,800 metre-long ice core , reaching the bedrock beneath

uptake and long-term storage of carbon - a new study in Nature Climate Change by experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute reveals a surprising outcome. Instead of strengthening, the carbon pump is being weakened

Celsius, which has never been satisfactorily explained. In the journal Science, a team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet

sizeable quantities of particle emissions into the environment. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the effects of these particle on blue mussels – a species also

ecosystems and the local communities can be endangered by the waste. In August, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with national and international partners, therefore, keep a close eye on

emissions worldwide. This is the conclusion of the Global Carbon Project, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute / the University of Bremen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)

conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have just released a paper in the journal Antarctic

“Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows that in a world without the current level of global warming Boris would have

Geosciences Department, the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, have investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain