been influenced by powerful westerly winds. A team of international researchers, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now determined that both regions are characterised by increased, alternating inflows

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

Grosse , A. Morgenstern , E. Pfeiffer , V. Rachold and L. Schirrmeister (editors), Germany, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, ISBN: 978-3-88808-714-1, pp 166-171. 2016

which sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. The researchers on board include experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).

A study released by WWF Germany and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) highlights the serious scale of the global plastic crisis and summarises the current state of knowledge concerning the effects of

matrix is needed. Lastly, current monitoring sensor systems are expensive. Pflanzen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Vegetables growing in waste water of the fish tank Project lead: Stephan Ende Contact:

indicate significant sea-ice loss, contrary to actual observations. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now shown, the ocean may weaken warming around Antarctica and delay sea-ice retreat

fast and how much is yet uncertain. To provide insight on this issue, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have modeled the development of the ice sheet from the past to the future. They published

years. Today, the consortium Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice (BE-OI), led by Olaf Eisen from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, presented its findings

the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research report in a new study, today only 20 percent