Keeping an eye on the regions when it comes to climate change

    analysis of climate traces from the past. A team led by the physicist Thomas Laepple from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and the climatologist Kira Rehfeld from the University of Tübingen has therefore

    Intensive Subtropical Ocean Warming is Only the Beginning

    warmed at all, or even grown slightly cooler, over the past 40 years. A team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now succeeded in confirming

    Invasive Chinese mitten crabs: New project launched to preserve native ecosystems

    highlighted the lack of internationally coordinated strategies to combat invasive species. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Dresden University of Technology (TUD), together with partners from Belgium

    Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

    the self-sufficiency of the Inuit. An international study team, including researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now evaluated the most important scientific work on Arctic cod of the past decades

    Arctic Marine Ecosystems Still Under Pressure

    coasts of Greenland and Svalbard. Experts from Kiel University, the University of Tromsø, and the Alfred Wegener Institute have now analysed scientific publications on the ecological impacts of climate change

    EU initiative "DestinE": “Digital Twin” of the Earth

    authorities, climate research institutions and supercomputing centers are involved in the project. Alfred Wegener Institute is participating in DestinE with its ocean model FESOM, which efficiently simulates

    Fisheries Agreement for the Central Arctic

    first conference of the parties will take place in Seoul (South Korea). Dr Hauke Flores from the Alfred Wegener Institute will be part of the EU delegation, serving as a scientific advisor.

    Full Speed Ahead for Climate-friendly Coastal Research

    ay, German Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger christened the Alfred Wegener Institute’s new research vessel Uthörn at the Fassmer shipyards in Berne. The new ship, measuring

    Underway in Norwegian Waters

    expedition – an initiative of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ARctic JELlies (ARJEL) at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) – had begun. The international

    The global “plastic flood” reaches the Arctic

    escape the global threat of plastic pollution. An international review study just released by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows, the flood of plastic has reached all spheres of the Arctic: large quantities