• How eddies affect our climate

      could be far more important than previously believed. Accordingly, a new project, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has just been launched in order to more precisely assess this aspect: by doing so,

    • Less Sea Ice, More Herring

      entire biotic community can change. This was the main conclusion arrived at by a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, based on an analysis of ancient DNA from the ocean floor. These changes

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

      separate catastrophes. An international team of researchers led by Hans-Otto Pörtner from the Alfred Wegener Institute calls for adopting a new perspective. In their review study just released in the journal

    • New Start-up develops aquafarms for macroalgae

      MACROCARBON SL has just been founded in Las Palmas, on the Canary Islands. It is a spin-off from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Carbonwave. The start-up

    • Microplastics: From detection to prevention

      Research Kiel contributes knowledge on the detection of tiny particles in various water bodies. The Alfred Wegener Institute supports the project with experiments in mesocosms as well as its expertise in the

    • 30 years of AWI airborne survey in the Arctic

      Research aircraft from the Alfred Wegener Institute have been surveying the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for 30 years. The immense effort of the past 52 expeditions has paid off: 40,000 km of measurement data

    • What is growing in the North Sea?

      of 68 brown algae species; green and red algae will follow. Developed by researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute and external cooperation partners, it offers scientific experts and government authorities

    • Arctic ice algae heavily contaminated with microplastics

      thus explain the high microplastic concentrations in the sediment there. Researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have now reported this in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

    • Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

      For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the journal

    • New AWI Study on Legacy Industrial Contamination in the Arctic Permafrost

      more easily spread throughout ecosystems. A team led by Moritz Langer and Guido Grosse from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Potsdam investigated the potential scale of this problem. According to their