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 ...

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 ...

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

In a new paper published in the journal Antarctic Science, a team led by Alfred Wegener Institute ice and climate history ...