The President of the European Commission and Greenland’s Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, Justice, Minerals and Gender Equality seek economic and diplomatic common ground. Photomontage: Christophe Licoppe / Xavier Lejeune / Patano / Wikimedia Commons /...
The St Andrews Bay king penguin colony is the largest in South Georgia, with around 150,000 breeding pairs. Image : Camille Lin The two most common species of penguin in the South Georgia archipelago have just shown signs of vulnerability to the avian flu virus....
Below a global temperature rise of 2°C, the glaciers of the Weddell Sea will not be irreversibly affected by warm water currents by the end of the century. Foresight. In the southern Weddell Sea, the world’s second largest ice shelf will remain protected from...
Ice shelves are the last brakes on the flow of glaciers into the sea from the upper reaches. Image: David Vaughan / British Antarctic Survey Thinning, shrinking, sliding and mega-cracks… In Antarctica, ice shelves are losing their footing. According to the...
Feral cats are the offspring of domesticated animals returned to the wild. Among terrestrial predators, they play a major role in the demography of the great albatross on Kerguelen. Photomontage: Camille Lin Mammals introduced to islands benefit from the...
