Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland. He noticed that, based on nineteenth-century longitude determinations, it appeared that ...

a palaeoclimatologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany. The researchers say their new model is the first step in understanding how humans affect long-term climate shifts by observing patterns ...

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 ...

Alfred Wegener InstituteThe new study was based on sediment core samples taken in 2017 near the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. Though the Earth was much warmer when dinosaurs roamed 90 million ...

Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ages.

Klages, who led the team from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven. The researchers previously found that a layer of mudstone in the area was ‘rich’ in microscopic fossils of spores or ...