Coastal landscape marked by erosion with meltwater ponds on Herschel Island, Canada. (Photo: Jaroslav Obu) A Research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute investigated the environmental risks from drilling mud pits in Canada’s Mackenzie Delta. Industrial...
Negative trend continues, but comparatively moderate shrinkage of ice extent in 2021 (Photo: AWI, Mario Hoppmann) The sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean reached its annual minimum of 4.81 million square kilometres on 12 September 2021. As such, the 2021 Arctic sea-ice...
Results of the MOSAiC expedition show: The expected recovery of the ozone layer could fail to materialize if global warming is not slowed down. (Photo: AWI, Esther Horvath) In spring 2020, the MOSAiC expedition documented an unparalleled loss of ozone in the Arctic...
The research icebreaker “Polarstern” in front of the iceberg A74 (Photo: AWI, Tim Kalvelage) Roughly two weeks ago, a massive iceberg calved from the Antarctic Ice Sheet. As the only research vessel nearby, the Polarstern took the opportunity to enter the...
Weddell seals rest on the pack ice. (Photo: AWI) Due to construction work in the sea, shipping, and gas and oil extraction, the oceans are becoming increasingly louder. A comprehensive international study has now shown that this noise affects the behaviour of far more...
