As Greenland melts, more freshwater is streaming into the oceans. Discharge from Arctic rivers, like the Lena, in Russia, is ...

The idea of Pangaea comes from Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the seven continents were once joined as a supercontinent.

The global production of plastics and the resulting plastic waste has increased to such an extent that plastics have become ...

They will travel with the research vessel "Saints Cyril and Methodius" and will be hosted at the Bulgarian base ...

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 ...

Northeast Greenland is home to the 79° N Glacier—the country's largest floating glacier tongue, but also one seriously ...

In January 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed an idea the scientific world thought was wack. After scrutinizing similar-looking fossils of plants and animals on different land ...

The story goes back to 1915 to Alfred Wegener, the German polar explorer and meteorologist, who we most associate with the idea of continental drift. Wegener could see that the continents were not ...

The atmospheric lidar ATLID, the last of four instruments on board the EarthCARE satellite launched in May, has now been ...

From January to December 2023, the vertical distribution of aerosol particles and clouds in the atmosphere above the German Neumayer Station III of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre ...