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Microalgae are tiny organisms that convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

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 ...

By analyzing ancient climate records preserved in ocean sediments, researchers from Cardiff University, UC Santa Barbara, Alfred Wegener Institute, and University College London have identified how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Except for scientists rotating in and out of Antarctica at its 70-plus seasonal and year-round research stations, this home to the South Pole doesn't have permanent residents, and for good reason ...