• Study on changes of past climate

    comparison with the present interglacial. This is one result of a study by Dr. Frank Lamy from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and colleagues in this week’s

  • Important phenomenon discovered in the Arctic

    An international study led by the University of Copenhagen and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered an important phenomenon under the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought to be

  • Germany starts gearing up for the 2032/33 polar year

    The 25th Arctic Dialogue
    The 25th Arctic Dialogue at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam focused on international cooperation in polar research

  • Most accurate map of Antarctica published

    scientists under the Head of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The map, called Bedmap3, covers more than six decades of survey data collected by

  • Global CO₂ emissions reach record high in 2025

    Project (GCP), an association of international scientists. Researchers from LMU Munich and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) / University of Bremen were leading contributors to the study.

  • World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

    the MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), won the World Press Photo Award

  • Arctic sea ice once again shows considerable melting

    ice shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometres, as was determined by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Bremen and Universität Hamburg. Though slightly larger than last

  • Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

    Canary Islands conducted by an international group of scientists with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The results have now been published in the international journal Nature Climate Change

  • Prof. Antje Boetius receives the 2018 German Environmental Award

    Award goes to Antje Boetius and a team of wastewater experts from Leipzig. The Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is glad to see the deep seas

  • Signs of tipping point for oxygen minimum zone in the ocean

    suddenly. This was the key finding of a study by group of researchers led by geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which has now been published