Nesting pair of wandering albatrosses around their nest on Cape Ratmanoff in the Kerguelen archipelago, French Subantarctic Territories. Image : Camille Lin Albatrosses have different personalities, and these “characters” influence their fishing...
Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is inhabited by an indigenous population that makes up around 90% of the total population, the highest proportion in the world. Image : Christine Zenino, Wikicommons CC BY 2.0 One of the regions most affected by climate change is...
The Quintillion fiber optic cable network to Nome. The lightning bolt marks the point where the incident took place (Image: Quintillion) An American telecommunications company with ambitions to connect Japan to Europe via the Arctic has suffered a setback: An iceberg...
Dumont d’Urville, French Antarctic coastal scientific base (Picture : Wikicommons CC BY-SA 3.0) An information report published by the Committee on Finance, the General Economy and Budgetary Control outlines the budgetary contours of France’s polar...
Between glacier retreat, disappearance of the winter ice pack and upwelling of warm water, the coasts of Svalbard are feeling the full force of global change. Picture: Michael Wenger The underwater ecosystem of the Svalbard archipelago has changed in appearance over...