• Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age

      And how does altered biodiversity actually affect interactions between plants? Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have tackled these questions and, in two recent studies, presented the answers they

    • Effects of marine heatwaves and cold spells on ecosystems in Arctic fjords

      communities. In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and the Helmholtz Centre Hereon

    • News from the CSD

      (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific Diver sampling coralline red algae. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The stereoscopic camera system Remos 3 after 6 month under water. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] cold... On site at -25°C. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) It is really cold.... (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Morning impressions from NyAlesund. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The sun is back after [...] (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Cleaning the PAR logger at the AWI UWO. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Mounting the underwater node and network interface on the new fundament. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Changes in high-altitude winds over the South Pacific produce long-term effects on the Antarctic

      the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The study was prepared by Dr Frank Lamy, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, together with researchers from Chile

    • Greenland loses more ice than assumed

      to 2015 compared to previously calculated 253 Gt per year. Ingo Sasgen and Veit Helm from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research as well as Kevin Fleming from the GFZ

    • The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater

      latest issue of the journal Nature, is the result of long-term research by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the MARUM. With a detailed analysis of the composition of marine deposits, the

    • How is the dramatic decline in sea ice affecting biodiversity?

      ice-dependent algae and fauna, from krill to Weddell seals. In the new EU project WOBEC, the Alfred Wegener Institute, as the coordinator of a consortium of eleven institutions from Europe and the US,

    • Warm Atlantic water is melting Greenland’s largest floating ice tongue

      much length during the past several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner. A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why. By applying a computer-based model, they were able to show that

    • Underestimated Heat Storage

      Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and with participation of scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now studied the quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land

    • From Antarctica to 'the Moon'

      for research, to supply the overwintering crews of Neumayer Station III that is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). With its return, the EDEN ISS project comes to an end, leaving behind a wealth