Change of staff in coastal research: AWI Vice Director Prof Karen Wiltshire to helm new climate institute at Trinity College Dublin

changes in the ecosystems of the North Sea, particularly in the Wadden Sea, in connection with anthropogenic and natural influences – like climate change – at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Five years later

The Future of Ocean Eddy Activity in a Warming World

a research team led by Alfred Wegener Institute scientists investigated what long-term impact anthropogenic climate change will have on ocean eddies and their far-reaching effects. Using climate model

Climate targets for 2030: Avenues to a sustainable reduction in CO2 emissions

Climate Change
In the Paris Agreement of 2015, Germany and the global community agreed to limit anthropogenic global warming to less than 2°C. But that goal can only be reached if both national and international

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can’t be approached as two separate things

Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture, fishing and industry, sparked an unprecedented loss of biodiversity that continues

Arctic Ocean: Greater Future acidification in summer

Over the past 200 years, our planet’s oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As a result, their acidity has increased by nearly 30 percent their

Ocean Optics

spatial coverage which contribute significantly to a better understanding for the attribution of anthropogenic and natural sources of climate change to the marine ecosystem and biogeochemical cycles. Our outreach

European oyster

Approaches Towards population Enhancement Find out more OMAP Project: Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure Find out more PROCEED Project: Development of a breeding facility at AWI Helgoland for [...] environmental research at the AWI Find out more CREATE Project: Concepts for reducing the impact of anthropogenic pressures Find out more

Drought risk in the Northern Hemisphere rises with intensified warming

Climate Change
Over the next few decades, anthropogenic climate change and the resultant changes in the global water cycle will produce a significant rise in drought frequency in the Northern Hemisphere

Influence of global warming

Wegener Institut) Macroalgae at Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) We study if and how anthropogenic environmental change (especially global warming) influences the production and interaction of

Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo

this sudden rise has proven a challenge for researchers. After all, factoring in the effects of anthropogenic influences like the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, of the weather phenomenon