A team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie Freiberg has discovered amber in Antarctica, offering ...

A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg published a paper in the ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Using a new net, marine biologists from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice with a trawl, allowing them to ...

The amber, excavated from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, provides a unique snapshot of life in prehistoric ...

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of ...

For the past seven years, Prof Antje Boetius has served as Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Tentatively as of 1 May 2025, she will ...

Beluga whales, narwhals, ringed seals and numerous Arctic seabirds have one thing in common: their preferred food is polar cod, Boreogadus saida. “For the first time, we’ve been able to use a ...

Alfred Wegener Institute and TU Bergakademie FreibergRoughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were ...