Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

As a Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research, the Alfred Wegener institute works above all in the cold and temperate regions of the world. Together with numerous national and international partners we are involved to decipher the complicated processes in the “system of earth”. Our planet is in a radical climate change. The pole areas and seas change. At the same time they play a central role in the global climate system. How does the planet earth develop? Do we observe short-term variations or long-term trends? Polar and marine research has always been a fascinating scientific challenge. Today it is also a piece of futurology.

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Thermokarst ponds, or trough ponds, typically form when the ice in permafrost melts. They can also drain quickly. Anna Liljedahl

Disappearing lakes and AI are helping scientists map Arctic permafrost thaw in near‑real time

Anna Liljedahl, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Ingmar Nitze, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

The abrupt disappearance of a lake is one clear sign that the ice below is melting, and a clue to wider permafrost changes.
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Why Africa’s young scientists should help check the quality of climate change research

Christel Dorothee Hansen, University of Pretoria; Chukwuma Moses Anoruo, University of Nigeria; Deniz Vural, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research; Eduardo Queiroz Alves, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); Marta Moreno Ibáñez, University of Colorado Boulder; Olumide David Onafeso, Olabisi Onabanjo University; Onema Christopher Adojoh, Northwest Missouri State University, and Vincent Hare, University of Cape Town

Global scientific reports about climate change are largely written and reviewed by older researchers from the global north.

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