• 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,

    • 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

    • Permafrost researcher Hubberten honored for lifetime achievement

      Award
      Today (Datum), former Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientist and mineralogist Prof Dr Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 from the International Permafrost

    • Media centre

      Media Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute Public Media Centre Utilization Under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY 4.0 the AWI provides photos and infographics, which can be used freely if the copyright

    • Floods of the Nile in the past can help us for the future

      study by a research team led by the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, including the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Innsbruck participated, provides insights into this. A sediment

    • 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

    • [Translate to English:] Kottas-Kohnen Traverse 2023

      convoy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Skidoo set up for measuring and placing new bamboos (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enjoying the view of the Kottas mountains (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Taking

    • Mak-Pak

      technical development of the packaging concept. Activities within the Mak-Pak Project (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Fact Sheet Project name Mak-Pak (Sustainable Packaging from Marine Macroalgae)

    • GAIN

      the principles of circular economy in aquatic production. GAIN_Image_Homepage_AWI.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Fact Sheet Project name GAIN (Green Aquaculture Intensification in Europe)

    • BioDiv

      distribution range. Gewinner und Verlierer Arten unter dem Einfluss des Klimawandels (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Simultaneously our society exploits the North Sea to a growing extent and profits [...] about science communication. Einfluss des Klimawandels auf die Miesmuschel Aquakultur (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) One result is that in the future extreme weather events, such as the increasing frequency