Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), here in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, and other marine creatures benefit from the sudden noise reduction in the oceans. Photo: Jonathan Irish Taken as a whole, the pandemic poses many threats to wildlife around the...
Southern elephant seals spend about a third of the year on the beaches of sub-Antarctic islands to give birth to their cubs and wait for the fur change. After the deprivation-rich time, they go on the hunt for lantern fish and squid in the depths of the Southern...
The excavations were carried out in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia near the village of Ust-Kyakhta, which is located on the Selenga River. Photo: G. Pavlenok An international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Human History in Jena has reconstructed...
The Southern Right Whales are called “Right whales” in English because they were the ‘right’ whales for whaling due to their buoyancy and low swimming speed. For more than 350 years, the population in the South Atlantic has been heavily...
Alison Criscitiello, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta’s Canadian Ice Core Laboratory and author of the new study, drills an ice core from the ice cap of Devon Island, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Photo: Anja Rutishauser With the enforcement of the...
