• Ice core drilling on Greenland reaches bedrock

      Institute, University of Copenhagen, and many researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have participated in the drilling over the past seven years.

    • Submarine Permafrost

      Profile submarine permafrost (Foto: Volker Rachold /AWI) (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) What is submarine permafrost? Subsea permafrost in the Arctic is generally relict terrestrial permafrost, inundated

    • Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

      . An international study team, including researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now evaluated the most important scientific work on Arctic cod of the past decades. The conclusion: Above

    • Study sheds new light on threat to cold-water corals

      exclusively focused on mature cold-water corals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently explored the effects on corals at various younger

    • Due to sea-ice retreat, zooplankton could remain in the deep longer

      water column. As an international team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now shown, in the future this could lead to more frequent food shortages for the zooplankton, and to negative

    • New study simulates greatly reduced permafrost

      reflect permafrost. A new study involving experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time applied an extensive ensemble of 17 climate models to quantify how said models portray

    • Polarstern reaches North Pole

      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 team

    • From Antarctica to 'the Moon'

      overwintering crews of Neumayer Station III that is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). With its return, the EDEN ISS project comes to an end, leaving behind a wealth of experience on efficient

    • How trace elements affect marine CO2 sinks

      on the global climate. In this regard, a new study from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the University of Bremen reveals an interesting connection: When phytoplankton simultaneously have access

    • Opening ceremony for the AWI Technical Centre “Rasmus Willumsen House”

      in Bremerhaven. In future, the Technical Centre is where the Alfred Wegener Institute will develop, test and prepare new equipment for use on expeditions. The project received 18.5 million euros of [...] Research (BMBF) and the Federal State of Bremen. In honour of Alfred Wegener’s last companion, the building was named after the Greenlander Rasmus Willumsen.