• Study sheds new light on threat to cold-water corals

      to date, experiments have exclusively focused on mature cold-water corals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently explored the effects

    • 20 Years AWIPEV: the French – German Arctic Research Base

      cooperation in international polar research celebrates its 20th anniversary. In 2003, the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the French Polar Research Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) merged their

    • Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species

      Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre

    • The federal government’s new Arctic policy guidelines

      that also concern Germany. In the following, Dr Volker Rachold, head of the Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), explains why the federal government

    • Global Warming Reaches Central Greenland

      and the region is now 1.5 °C warmer than during the 20 th century, as researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute just report in the journal Nature . Using a set of ice cores unprecedented in length

    • Measuring Methane in the Baltic

      board the research vessel Skagerak. Ellen Damm, Samuel Sellmaier and Volkmar Assmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute were on board to determine how much of the methane released was still in the waters

    • How the ocean affects climate on land

      suggested by a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience . Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam used thousands of pollen records to create for the first time a map of the

    • Arctic coasts in transition

      In a special issue of the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment , researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute describe the sensitivity of Arctic coasts to climate change and the challenges for

    • Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visits Palau Atmospheric Observatory

      distribution of particles in the atmosphere and their influence on the climate worldwide. The Alfred Wegener Institute has been operating the Palau Atmospheric Observatory here since 2015, together with

    • Beyond EPICA: First cores lifted from deep Antarctic ice

      team successfully completed the first campaign and lifted the first cores. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute were instrumental in the planning and also on site.