• 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

    • Polarstern reaches North Pole

      ArcWatch 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Are particle emissions from offshore wind farms harmful for blue mussels?

      sizeable quantities of particle emissions into the environment. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the effects of these particle on blue mussels – a species also

    • More than 1.2 million years old ice core drilled

      It is a historic milestone for climate research: an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has successfully drilled a 2,800 metre-long ice core , reaching the bedrock beneath

    • Fish larvae under stress due to climate change

      Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre

    • 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.