maintain biogeochemical cycles and thus sustain our ecosystems. A. Murat Eren, a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz Institute for

few locations. In the citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with citizens, have now collected samples from beaches along the entire German

researchers in a 2,665-metre-deep borehole using a fibre-optic cable. The team from ETH Zurich, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Strasbourg and the Niels Bohr Institute have now published their

study by a research team led by the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, including the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Innsbruck participated, provides insights into this. A sediment

rising water temperatures – also and especially in the Arctic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now successfully shown. In computer models, they exposed eight widespread Arctic

Climate History
An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have managed to open a new window into the climate history

in the Arctic differ fundamentally from those in non-polar oceans. A recent study, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, in the journal Communications Earth & Environment , summarizes how these events have

conducted on 12 November 2025 in Bremerhaven. Our Route Reports Foto_18.09.18__22_33_47.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Here you find the expedition report of the expedition PS132 (NoSoAT2023) Here you find

Haakon. Icebreakers Kronprins Haakon and Polarstern at the Aurora Hydrothermal Ventfield (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

acoustic signals. Top to bottom: annual - monthly - daily - hourly - 10-min. CC-BY-4.0 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)