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Micro- and nanoplastic from the atmosphere is polluting the ocean

Reviews Earth and Environment , an international team of researchers – including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the GEOMAR Helmholtz

Antarctic hotspot: Fin whales favour the waters around Elephant Island

the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen

Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles

wind-driven current systems in the ocean have steadily shifted toward the poles. Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), came to this conclusion after

Pioneering research reveals Arctic matter pathways poised for major shifts amidst climate change

Arctic biogeochemistry and ecosystems, while the fresh water itself alters ocean circulation. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar an Marine Research (AWI) was part of the international

Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea

winter, there were virtually no biologists on site to watch for the animals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now used permanently installed

Forecasting low flow conditions for the Elbe and Rhine:

avoided if modern forecasting methods had been used. That is the conclusion researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) reached after testing their recently

How the seafloor of the Antarctic Ocean is changing – and the climate is following suit

will they do so in the future? A team of international experts, led by geophysicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has now shed new light on nine

A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

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An international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now provided a new and unprecedented

Gigantic ocean heat reservoirs respond to rise in global CO2 and changes in the Atlantic conveyor belt

change is altering the circulation patterns of the AMOC. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute found that this change has led to asynchronous poleward shifts of the Atlantic subtropical

Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic

water back out of the Barents Sea on the sea ice of the Barents Sea. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered - using model simulations - that this return flow from the Barents

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