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      Permafrost coring in the Fish Creek Delta, North Alaska (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. My [...] their vulnerability to mobilization Alaskan Yedoma cliff (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes underlain by permafrost are threatened by climate warming and may degrade by gradual active [...] by thermal erosion thermoerosional valley Kurungnakh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Thermo-erosional valleys are widely distributed in ice-rich permafrost deposits of arctic lowlands, but have not

    • Warm Atlantic water is melting Greenland’s largest floating ice tongue

      several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner. A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why. By applying a computer-based model, they were able to show that warm water from the Atlantic

    • From Antarctica to 'the Moon'

      overwintering crews of Neumayer Station III that is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). With its return, the EDEN ISS project comes to an end, leaving behind a wealth of experience on efficient

    • Underestimated Heat Storage

      Research (UFZ) and with participation of scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now studied the quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land heat among the continental

    • Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo

      satisfactorily explained. In the journal Science, a team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet has become less reflective

    • Changes in high-altitude winds over the South Pacific produce long-term effects on the Antarctic

      The study was prepared by Dr Frank Lamy, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, together with researchers from Chile, the Netherlands, the USA

    • The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater

      Nature, is the result of long-term research by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the MARUM. With a detailed analysis of the composition of marine deposits, the scientists could demonstrate

    • "Oceanic tunnel" transported CO2 from Antarctica during the last ice age

      climate models, an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has now been able to fill this knowledge gap. This is important to better understand the transport of oceanic CO2

    • Krill fishing in the Antarctic: overlaps with consequences

      feed on krill are required urgently. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Bergen has now been able to use acoustic recordings, that fishing

    • Did humans influence wildfires in Siberia much earlier than previously thought?

      long-term data available for this region. Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now reconstructed the regional fire dynamics in Yakutia over the last 10,000 years for the first time and