The end of the last ice age and the processes that led to the melting of the northern and southern ice sheets supply basic information on changes in our climate.

Autonomous underwater vehicle of the Alfred Wegener Institute dives under the Arctic ice for the first time.

The German Research Vessel Polarstern had to prove its ice breaking capabilities in Arctic waters to gain data on two series of long-term research measurements.

The Antarctic deep sea gets colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses.

Federal research minister aboard the research icebreaker Polarstern