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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

The grand finale to the expedition of a century

expedition were welcomed by e.g. Federal Minister of Research Anja Karliczek and the Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Antje Boetius. The event marked the end of a record-breaking expedition: never before

Rising water temperatures threaten the reproduction of many fish species

Climate Change
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have published ground-breaking findings on the effects of climate change for fish stocks

Effects of marine heatwaves and cold spells on ecosystems in Arctic fjords

communities. In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and the Helmholtz Centre Hereon

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

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age

And how does altered biodiversity actually affect interactions between plants? Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have tackled these questions and, in two recent studies, presented the answers they

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

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

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