• Relaunch of the Sea Ice Portal: more intuitive layout and new features

      essential information on this and many other developments. From today, the joint project of the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM, and the University of Bremen is available

    • Arctic Marine Ecosystems Still Under Pressure

      coasts of Greenland and Svalbard. Experts from Kiel University, the University of Tromsø, and the Alfred Wegener Institute have now analysed scientific publications on the ecological impacts of climate change

    • Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany

      plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the Alfred Wegener Institute. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore imprints

    • Record low sea ice cover in the Antarctic

      million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen analyse the situation for the Sea Ice Portal. January

    • Monica Ionita

      How extreme will our weather and climate be? Dr Monica Ionita, climate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Extreme weather events Climate research Meteorology Time series analysis Beside the influence

    • Infrared Based Whale Detection - AWI OZA

      Sea). Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 22.3: V-shaped blow of a baleen whale in the Southern Ocean. Note the tilted horizon caused by the ship's roll. Alfred-Wege [...] titut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 23.6 A minke whale blows through a hole it maintains in the solid sea ice during austral winter. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 24.3 The ice [...] blows (next image). Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: ?) ANT 24.3 A whale blowing at around 1km distance in a lead in the sea ice of the ice covered Southern Ocean. Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY

    • Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species

      Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre

    • How eddies affect our climate

      could be far more important than previously believed. Accordingly, a new project, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has just been launched in order to more precisely assess this aspect: by doing so,

    • S5POC+Innovation

      colour products for the TROPOMI instrument on the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite. S5POC, lead by Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), was carried out with the University

    • Less Sea Ice, More Herring

      entire biotic community can change. This was the main conclusion arrived at by a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, based on an analysis of ancient DNA from the ocean floor. These changes