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  • 29 Nov 2009
    Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
    In the film, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.
  • 8 Jan 2009
    Podcast: Professor Jörn Thiede on the European Research Icebreaker Aurora Borealis
    Professor Jörn Thiede from the University of Kopenhagen, who is also the former director of the Alfred Wegener Institute (1997 – 2007), speaks about the European Research Icebreaker Aurora Borealis. The development of Aurora Borealis, the first European research vessel for the Arctic, is the main...


  • 3 Dec 2008
    The technical design of the European Research Icebreaker - Aurora Borealis
    (Berlin) The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association and the engineering company Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany (formerly Schiffko, GmbH) today presented the technical design of the European Research Icebreaker “Aurora Borealis" in Berlin. Aurora Borealis...

    • 2 Dec 2008
      Rivers are carbon processors, not inert pipelines
      Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologist Dr Tom Battin, of the University of Vienna, told a COST ESF Frontiers of Science conference in October that our understanding of how rivers and streams...

    • 24 Nov 2008
      Europe Cores in EUROCORES – Ocean Drilling in EuroMARC
      The oceans are our climate regulators, cover the sites of fundamental geodynamic, geochemical and biological processes and have high-resolution records of the Earth’s history in store for us. Scientific marine drilling and coring is crucial to cast light on both the deep and shallow (sub-)...