'Unimaginable' theory emerges about desolate continent
Klages believes it's a “huge challenge” for humans to grasp how dramatically the climate is likely to change in future. Most ...
Scientists use acoustic data to track blue and fin whale occurrences in the Arctic
The long-term analysis of blue whale and fin whale vocalizations in the eastern Fram Strait offers valuable insights into ...
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Scientists Find Evidence of an Ancient Rainforest in Antarctica
In a new paper published in the journal Antarctic Science, a team led by Alfred Wegener Institute ice and climate history ...
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How much does climate change influence extreme weather events?
One of the key challenges was to accurately connect long-term climate modeling with the actual conditions of specific weather ...
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'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago
"This discovery allows a journey to the past in yet another more direct way," study lead author Johann Klages, a ...
90 million-year-old discovery could change everything we thought we knew about Antarctica
The discovery of 90 million-year-old amber on the continent of Antarctica could change everything we know about the history ...
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Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest
The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...
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This spot will be key to the inevitable collapse of a key Atlantic current
New modeling research reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is particularly vulnerable to ...
First amber find on the Antarctic continent provides new insights into Cretaceous forests
Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...
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90,000,000-year-old discovery suggests Antarctica once looked different than previously thought
Klages, who led the team from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven. The researchers previously found that a layer of ...
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Alfred Wegener
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 ...