• Thawing permafrost: Not a climate tipping element, but nevertheless far-reaching impacts

      scientific data currently available, the image is deceptive, as an international team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has shown in a recently released study. According to their findings, there is no single

    • Permafrost Biogeochemistry

      northern Alaska. For scale: the size of the polygonal pattern is approximately 10 meter. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate warming is inducing drastic changes in Arctic permafrost landscapes, such as

    • Permafrost researcher Hubberten honored for lifetime achievement

      Award
      Today (Datum), former Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientist and mineralogist Prof Dr Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 from the International Permafrost

    • Legal Department

      Legal Department The Legal Department represents the Alfred Wegener Institute in all judicial concerns. Postal address Legal Department Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Reseach

    • Media centre

      Media Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute Public Media Centre Utilization Under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY 4.0 the AWI provides photos and infographics, which can be used freely if the copyright

    • Floods of the Nile in the past can help us for the future

      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

    • The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets

      . The root for this could lie in its formation, as an international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered: sediment samples from drill cores combined with complex climate

    • Gerrit Lohmann

      about the future Prof. Dr Gerrit Lohmann, Head of the Working Group Paleoclimate Dynamics at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen for the Department of Physics of the Climate

    • [Translate to English:] Kottas-Kohnen Traverse 2023

      convoy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Skidoo set up for measuring and placing new bamboos (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enjoying the view of the Kottas mountains (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Taking

    • Mak-Pak

      technical development of the packaging concept. Activities within the Mak-Pak Project (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Fact Sheet Project name Mak-Pak (Sustainable Packaging from Marine Macroalgae)