In February and March 2021, the research team took 17 water samples from the southern Weddell Sea to investigate the concentration of microplastics. Photo: Clara Leistenschneider The pollution of the Southern Ocean with microplastics has been significantly...
Nioghalvfjerdsbrae, also known as the 79°N glacier, is located in the northwest of Greenland. The ice stream, which split into two glacier tongues, became famous when the northern tongue broke off and dissolved completely in 2020. The graphic at the top left shows how...
The German Neumayer Station in Antarctica is just one of the 64 research facilities that researchers can use as part of the POLARIN network. Photo: Klaus Guba The EU is funding the new POLARIN (Polar Research Infrastructure Network) research infrastructure project...
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is found in huge quantities around the Antarctic continent. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute) Antarctic krill is only slightly contaminated with microplastics and is therefore well suited for monitoring the contamination of the...
During the polar night of 2022, the Kongsfjord on Svalbard was teeming with jellyfish and cnidarians such as the Aglantha digitale. Photo: Charlotte Havermans, AWI With the help of so-called DNA metabarcoding, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)...