• Higher CO2 absorption in the Southern Ocean

      of East Anglia (UEA) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, has found that the Southern Ocean around Antarctica absorbs more carbon dioxide (CO

    • 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

    • Intensive Subtropical Ocean Warming is Only the Beginning

      warmed at all, or even grown slightly cooler, over the past 40 years. A team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now succeeded in confirming

    • 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

    • Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

      the self-sufficiency of the Inuit. 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

    • 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

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

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

    • Fisheries Agreement for the Central Arctic

      first conference of the parties 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.

    • Full Speed Ahead for Climate-friendly Coastal Research

      ay, German Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger christened the Alfred Wegener Institute’s new research vessel Uthörn at the Fassmer shipyards in Berne. The new ship, measuring