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

    How is the dramatic decline in sea ice affecting biodiversity?

    ice-dependent algae and fauna, from krill to Weddell seals. In the new EU project WOBEC, the Alfred Wegener Institute, as the coordinator of a consortium of eleven institutions from Europe and the US, will

    25 years of the deep-sea observatory AWI-HAUSGARTEN

    For the past 25 years, the Alfred Wegener Institute has operated a long-term observatory in the Arctic deep sea: the HAUSGARTEN. Located between Greenland and Svalbard, it is where researchers investigate

    Before the ice were the rivers

    Geoscience researchers at the University of Bremen, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and other international participants, have discovered a vast river system in the Antarctic

    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”

    10 Years of Excellence

    the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography (CofE) at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). This not only honoured the successful

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    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

    Call for tender procedure for the construction of a successor to the icebreaker Polarstern has been cancelled.

    II, for legal reasons. In times of unresolved climate issues, the research mission of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) can only be fulfilled in the long

    Counting penguins in Antarctica

    nder-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has now developed a new, reliable method at the Alfred Wegener Institute's Neumayer Station III, among others, that can accurately predict the number of breeding