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Stagnation in the South Pacific

Marine Environment (ICBM), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) were able to demonstrate that

The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets

. The root for this could lie in its formation, as an international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered: sediment samples from drill cores combined with complex climate

Thawing permafrost: Not a climate tipping element, but nevertheless far-reaching impacts

scientific data currently available, the image is deceptive, as an international team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has shown in a recently released study. According to their findings, there is no single

There are large accumulations of plastics in the ocean, even outside so-called garbage patch

research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has found large quantities of plastic waste and microplastics in a remote marine

The Transpolar Drift is faltering – and sea ice is now melting before it can leave the nursery

ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research report in a new study, today only 20

Climate Change makes Arctic Ozone Loss Worse

Arctic stratosphere. As an evaluation of meteorological data and model-based simulations by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) now indicates, ozone depletion

Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially in winter. Sea-ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), together with researchers from

Atmospheric research in Germany will be significantly expanded

Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig, and the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute is also involved. ACTRIS will provide data on the short-lived constituents of the

Long-awaited breakthrough in the reconstruction of warm climate phases

Climatology
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have overcome a seeming weakness of global climate models. They had previously not been

Pacific stores the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at depths of thousands of metres

New Ice Age Knowledge
An international team of researchers headed by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has gained new insights into the carbon dioxide exchange between ocean and atmosphere

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