• 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

    • Intense glacial melting confirms changed wind patterns in the Arctic

      has been influenced by powerful westerly winds. A team of international researchers, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now determined that both regions are characterised by increased, alternating inflows

    • 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.

    • The formation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was very different than previously believed

      Thanks to these two factors, Antarctica was soon completely covered in ice. As a study from the Alfred Wegener Institute now shows, this massive glaciation was delayed in at least one region. This new piece

    • New findings on pockmarks in the North Sea

      and liquids, vertebrates may be the key to explaining pockmarks. Dr. Jasper Hoffmann from the Alfred Wegener institute, Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research (AWI), was part of this project. The

    • Due to sea-ice retreat, zooplankton could remain in the deep longer

      organisms rise and fall within the water column. As an international team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now shown, in the future this could lead to more frequent food shortages for the

    • New study simulates greatly reduced permafrost

      projections are unable to dynamically reflect permafrost. A new study involving experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time applied an extensive ensemble of 17 climate models to quantify

    • 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