HOWEVER much conservative instincts may rebel, geologists cannot refuse a hearing to Dr. Alfred Wegener, professor of meteorology in the University of Hamburg. As an oceanographer, he looks out ...

As 2023 came to a close, scientists had hoped that a stretch of record heat that emerged across the planet might finally ...

In 1912 Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had originated in the breakup of one supercontinent. His idea has not been widely accepted, hut new evidence suggests that the principle is correct ...

After several years of service under harsh weather conditions, the rotor blades of offshore wind parks are subjected to ...

We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold. For example, the Himalayas ...

The company received the official contract to construct a new research icebreaker from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) ...

Recent research indicates that a decline in low-altitude clouds may be accelerating global warming. Scientists from the ...

With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the understanding that plates' movement caused earthquakes, Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental ...