Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

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 ...

Researchers board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Polarstern icebreaker have returned from the “epicenter of climate change” with a trove of new data and some sobering news.

The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the University of Bremen had already secured extensive data sets from the USA in 2025.

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Scientist and explorer -- Wegener's shocking idea -- The world reacts to Wegener's idea -- Preparing for Greenland -- Arriving in Greenland -- Establishing Eismitte -- The fourth trip to Eismitte, ...