During the Antarctic summer, 191 people live in Villa Las Estrellas, working and researching at the Chilean Antarctic station Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalvo on King George Island. Photo: Mefisto29 / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Chilean mobile communications company...
An emperor penguin colony near the ice edge photographed during an aerial survey. Photo: Sara Labrousse High-resolution satellite images enabled an international research team to document the global population development of emperor penguins for the first time:...
The Kolyma in eastern Siberia is frozen to a depth of several meters for more than eight months of the year. When the ice melts in June, huge quantities of sediment and organic material are released into the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Norman Kuring/NASA’s Ocean Color...
Sea ice still exists in the Arctic summer. Greenhouse gas emissions will decide how much longer. Photo: Julia Hager The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic raises many questions: When will the Arctic be ice-free? What does the loss of ice mean on a large and small scale?...
The German Neumayer Station in Antarctica is just one of the 64 research facilities that researchers can use as part of the POLARIN network. Photo: Klaus Guba The EU is funding the new POLARIN (Polar Research Infrastructure Network) research infrastructure project...