ecosystem. In a recently released study in the journal Nature Climate Change , experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute report on this trend and analyse observational data from three decades of aerial surveys

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

absorb atmospheric CO 2 on the scale of Iceland’s total annual emissions, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and partner institutes report in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience

tons). These are the outcomes of a report just released by the Global Carbon Project, which the Alfred Wegener Institute helped to prepare.

expedition of around eight weeks to the Antarctic. Extensive preventative measures have allowed the Alfred Wegener Institute to tackle important research on former instabilities of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Polarstern expedition that ended in Punta Arenas, Chile on 14 th March 2018. Oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with German and international colleagues, have collected important data along

that depend on it, warns a group of krill experts headed by Prof. Dr. Bettina Meyer from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in the journal Communications

invasive animal species in our oceans? This question was the focus for a team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bangor University (Wales, UK)

collect and analyse samples from the mudflats. The children were supported by a small team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

of the glaciers. Using innovative new calculations, a team of climate researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now managed to explain this discrepancy. The study, which was recently published