Last week, more than 8 billion tonnes melted from Greenland’s ice sheet on each of two consecutive days. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly again this year – on Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, a total of nearly 17...
Glaciers such as Eqip Sermia in the central part of West Greenland have been under close observation by science teams for years. This is because the ice streams have continued to retreat due to increased melting. Their behaviour forms a kind of early warning system...
Polar bear on Arctic sea ice (Photo: AWI / Stefan Hendricks) The cause of the speed and severity of abrupt climate changes during the last cold period lies in the ocean. This is confirmed by a new study by AWI scientist Henrik Sadatzki, now published in Proceedings of...
Crab fisherman in Chukotka, the Russian side of the Bering Strait. In the future, there will be restrictions to the Russian favourite activity: ice fishing. (Foto: Heiner Kubny) The ice cover of the Bering Sea has reached new lows in the winters of 2018 and 2019,...
The research expedition led the Japanese scientists to the Shirase Glacier in Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. Normally, the bay is inaccessible to ships even in summer, because the sea ice which is connected to the land, also called fast ice, makes it impossible...
