Half of the coral reefs have already been lost

commentary by Julian Gutt, one of the report’s lead authors and a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

Kick-off for a new polar research project

Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the project, which is coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, with 2.7 million euros until the end of 2026.

Weakening of Antarctic bottom water circulation is noticeable in the North Atlantic

transport oxygen far down into the depths. An international research team, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now discovered that ocean currents have weakened by around twelve per cent due to

Statement on Call for Tenders for Polarstern’s Successor

Polarstern
Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute: “We were extremely pleased and relieved to pick up on the signals from the political community that the Budget Committee of the

Record highs in the North Sea: Even the German Bight is warmer than ever before

In 2023, the North Sea also experienced dramatic record highs, as readings taken by the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Biological Institute Helgoland indicate. As data from the time series “Helgoland Reede”

Ice core drilling on Greenland reaches bedrock

Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and many researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have participated in the drilling over the past seven years.

Arctic Carbon Conveyor Belt Discovered

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 .

No Sign of a Reduction in Global CO2 Emissions

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

How unstable is the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?

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 despite

Research vessel Polarstern expected in Bremerhaven

good six months of Antarctic expeditions. In the austral summer, the research vessel of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), penetrated into the southern Weddell