Satellite image of Severnaya Zemlya. The archipelago is located in the Russian High Arctic at about 80 degrees north latitude and covers about 37,000 square kilometers. Photo: Landsat 8, NASA The news about massive ice losses in the Arctic does not stop. After...
Last week, more than 8 billion tonnes melted from Greenland’s ice sheet on each of two consecutive days. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly again this year – on Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, a total of nearly 17...
The fossils found are reportedly very similar to the skeletons of horn sponges, such as Chelonaplysilla violacea. Photo: Philippe Bourbon, Creative Commons 3.0 Separate The Cambrian Explosion is generally regarded as the kickoff for animal life, the evolution of which...
A view into the lava lake of Mount Erebus. It has probably existed for over one hundred years, which is unusual. Photo: Nial Peters Field research in Antarctica confronts scientists with major challenges in many respects. Extreme cold and violent storms not only take...
The Arctic Century Expedition is being carried out aboard the Akademik Tryoshnikov, a Russian research icebreaker. Currently, the ship is docked in Kiel, where it is being loaded for the expedition. Photo: Jan Steffen, GEOMAR In August, scientists from Switzerland,...