The research vessel Polarstern in the gap between the iceberg A74 and the Brunt Ice Shelf, left. Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)/Ralph Timmermann Last month, an iceberg the size of Los Angeles broke off ...

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The alga Melosira arctica, which grows under Arctic sea ice, contains ten times as many microplastic particles as the surrounding seawater. This concentration at the base of the food web poses a ...

Hajo Eicken had “everything I could ever ask for” in his former career at a German institute. Well, almost everything.

The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the University of Bremen had already secured extensive data sets from the USA in 2025. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has ...

Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean this summer may shrink to the ...

Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global average. The result - and, thanks to feedback effects, also the cause - is dwindling sea ice. In a study ...