• Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland underestimated

    by a new study in the scientific journal Nature, in which the Alfred Wegener Institute was also involved. As a result, the contribution of Greenland's glaciers to future sea level rise is significantly

  • No Sign of a Reduction in Global CO2 Emissions

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

  • Arctic Carbon Conveyor Belt Discovered

    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 .

  • Fisheries Agreement for the Central Arctic

    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.

  • Loss of Ice Can Increase the Atmospheric CO2 Concentration

    ppm. These findings were just released by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Nature Communications .

  • Short-lived Ice Streams

    the Greenland ice sheet, that a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just presented in the journal Nature Geoscience.

  • Polarstern Turns 40

    Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel and Werft Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s flagship has successfully completed more than 130 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and offered a temporary

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

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

  • Arctic Ocean: Greater Future acidification in summer

    change, as an international team including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently demonstrated. If this comes to pass, it could have far-reaching consequences for life in the ocean, as

  • Olaf Eisen

    can the heat harm them? Prof. Dr Olaf Eisen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and professor at the University of Bremen. Ice sheets Glaciers Ice dynamics in climate change The ice masses of