Driftwood plays a key role in Arctic coastal ecosystems: it stores carbon, stabilises coastlines and provides a habitat for ...

A study by the (AWI) offers a possible explanation for why the ocean surrounding Antarctica continues to absorb carbon ...

Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, observational data actually shows that this ability has seen no ...

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Life on Antactic seafloor, where giant iceberg A74 calved from Brunt Ice Shelf (eastern Weddell Sea) two weeks before scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and international colleagues arrived ...

As long as natural CO₂ doesn’t surface from the deep ocean, the Southern Ocean can continue to absorb anthropogenic CO₂, a ...

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 ...

On the seafloor of the shallow coastal regions north of Siberia, microorganisms produce methane when they break down plant remains. If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, it can also ...

Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) with a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer.

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have overcome a seeming weakness of global climate models. They had previously not been able to ...

The bottom of the Baltic Sea is home to large quantities of sunken munitions, a legacy of the Second World War—and often very close to shore. Should we simply leave them where they are and accept the ...