• New sym­bi­osis discovered

      Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can

    • Open waters around the North Pole: Arctic sea ice in retreat

      for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN). His colleague Prof. Christian Haas from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) confirms: "The trend continues." Currently, the Northeast and Northwest Passages

    • Billions of juvenile fish under the Arctic sea ice

      Polar cod
      Using a new net, marine biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice with a trawl, allowing them

    • Taiga Forests Protect Permafrost Soils

      frozen permafrost . A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change , in which the Alfred Wegener Institute was involved, has now, for the first time, quantified the amount of carbon that this

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    • Fleet + stations

      changes of our planet and to be able to estimate the results for mankind, scientists of the Alfred Wegener institute undertake expeditions in inhospitable however fascinating regions of the Earth. Our

    • Invasive Chinese mitten crabs: New project launched to preserve native ecosystems

      highlighted the lack of internationally coordinated strategies to combat invasive species. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Dresden University of Technology (TUD), together with partners from Belgium

    • No two worms are alike

      released in the journal PLOS Biology, a team led by Sören Häfker and Kristin Tessmar-Raible from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Vienna

    • Keeping an eye on the regions when it comes to climate change

      analysis of climate traces from the past. A team led by the physicist Thomas Laepple from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and the climatologist Kira Rehfeld from the University of Tübingen has therefore

    • Polarstern reaches North Pole

      ArcWatch Expedition
      Five weeks after setting sail from Tromsø, Norway, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Polarstern makes a stop at the northernmost point on Earth. Here, too, the international