42,000-year-old sub-fossil trees allow more accurate analysis of the last reversal of the Earth's magnetic field

Nowaczyk from the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and Florian Adolphi from the Alfred Wegener Institute, in a study that now appears in the journal Science .

Final Report of the High-Tech Forum 2019–2021

ions for the future innovation strategy in Germany. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is a member of the central committee

How larches are conquering Siberia’s high northern reaches

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Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have for the first time reconstructed the historical development of the larch forests in northern

Researchers see need for action on forest fire risk

Dietze, formerly at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in Potsdam and now at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, now provides new answers to these

Asymmetric development of the polar ice sheets changed ice age cycles

Pleistocene, around 2 million years before today: the so-called mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The Alfred Wegener Institute was involved in the study, which was published in the journal Science .

Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

will be led by Kiel University and will have a geoscientific focus, with researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute involved in both expeditions. The change of personnel and ship supply will take place

Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany

plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the Alfred Wegener Institute. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore imprints

Getting to the Bottom of El Niño

researchers led by Gabriel M. Pontes from the University of São Paulo and including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently studied ENSO’s characteristics and behaviour. The consortium has just presented

New Method Makes It Possible to Measure Arctic Sea-ice Thickness, Even in Summer

surface make it difficult to apply. An international team of researchers including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now developed a method that, for the first time, makes it possible to identify

In East Siberia, Extreme Wildfires are on the Rise

wildfires in the region, a team of researchers led by Ramesh Glückler and Elisabeth Dietze from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the connections between wildfire activity and forest structures