Chile’s future icebreaker still looks skeletal. However, it is scheduled to be launched in just 6 months and will supply the Chilean Antarctic stations and conduct polar research from 2024 on. Image: ASMAR Shipyard The construction of icebreakers is mostly left...
The soldier indicates it: more than 4 billion Canadian dollars (about 3.6 billion euros) the government wants to invest in its armed forces and the North American Air Defense System NORAD to ensure more security for its citizens. Image: Ken Jacobson For several years...
Sermeq Konrad Steffen, as the newly named glacier is called, is a terminal glacier flowing into the Arctic Ocean and is also emblematic of Konrad Steffen, who was closely associated with Greenland’s ice sheet and who also died in an accident there. Image:...
Seemingly stress-free and relaxed, a young female walrus enjoyed the sandy beach and sun on the German Baltic Sea island of Ruegen. Many tourists observed the unusual visitor, but without disturbing the animal. Image: Screenshot Video Vivica von Vietinghoff Ruegen is...
Since 1982, the “Polarstern” has been tirelessly plowing through Arctic and Antarctic waters in the service of German polar research and for the AWI. In terms of distance, the ship has circumnavigated the globe more than 82 times. Time to slowly retire....