A breath of fresh air is blowing through the polar regions of the internet: Polar Journal AG, the popular platform for all polar enthusiasts, will have a new look and a new web address from January 1, 2025.
Today marks the official final day of the 29th World Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. As is often the case, a major breakthrough has yet to be achieved. Therefore, scientists and governments of the Ambition on Melting Ice group are urging all countries to significantly step up their efforts.
Aleš Česen is a celebrated mountaineer but stresses that no special training is required to work in Antarctica.
At an international workshop in Siena, experts raised numerous questions on chemical pollution in the Antarctic, but have yet to find any answers.
Industrial krill fishing in Antarctic waters is expanding, reducing the availability of krill, the primary food source for baleen whales.
For more than 20 years, Julius Fabbri has tried to gain international recognition of a time 49 years ago when Italy built a secret base in Antarctica.
Both Greenland and the middle of Antarctica are currently experiencing a hot climate, although the reasons and type of climate are different.
Two Australian scientists delved deep into a valuable archive of more than 300,000 historical photographs from Antarctica to understand how glaciers reacted in the past.
The app allows ship management to track and reduce motion sickness in real-time.
Video gamers and the gaming industry have also discovered the polar regions, bringing together history, the environment, culture and the economy.
A study published today in PLOS Climate, investigated women’s experiences in frontier science.
The 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting has come to a close in Kochi, India. Negotiations focused, among other things, on the regulation of scientific and tourist activities, at a time of new questions raised by the emergence of the avian flu epidemic. The press and media were not allowed to attend, a fact that has been criticised on several occasions. We felt it was important to understand why these annual meetings maintain this limited degree of transparency.
Extracting mineral resources in the ice wilderness may be illegal and a tough physical task to boot. Yet, a top Indian scientist told 56 states — including Russia, thought to be ‘prospecting’ in the sensitive region — that he was worried about the ‘rapid’ growth of exploration methods, and how these might be used by ‘nations outside’ the Antarctic Treaty.
Following Daily Maverick’s investigations, Russia’s descriptions of vast potential Antarctic hydrocarbon reserves have sparked headlines in the UK, US and elsewhere. Antarctic Treaty states now face the urgent task of addressing Russia’s activities at this week’s critical annual summit, The Spectator said at the weekend.
The book “Antarctica – A History in 100 Objects” takes the reader on a journey through the history, but also the present and future of Antarctica.
The mindset of the Arctic and Antarctic marathon runners seems to be: “if I have to run 42 kilometers, it may as well be in beautiful surroundings,” a marathon organizer tells Polar Journal.
Whether it was auroras in the sky, a parliamentary inquiry shedding light on an Antarctic affair or a court ruling in Canada that brought a wrong decision to light, last week light was an important topic in polar affairs.
The study analyzed data across the Southern Ocean from 2006 until 2021.
Chilean lawyers have been sent to Antarctica to study the possibility of harmonising legislation in this region in terms of standards and biosafety linked to the introduction of avian flu and its consequences for wildlife and human activities.
Whether emperor penguins, icebreakers or environmental pollution: logistical challenges can cause small and biger problems for projects in the polar regions, as shown last week.
Polar regions are experiencing a hype not seen since the days of early polar exploration. This interest applies particularly to economic development and jobs in both the Arctic and Antarctic. On the one hand, everyone directly or indirectly connected to polar regions needs a workforce. On the other hand, those who live in or near […]
Cash-strapped scientists in Antarctica face ‘unimaginable’ challenges — from sampling a lethal virus on floating ice to fighting a ‘climate’ threat that could kill millions of wildlife, and even humans. Despite calls for global assistance, 29 states meeting in India next month remain entrenched in Cold War-era secrecy.
Penguins and researchers have been living together for over 50 years in Terre Adélie, where scientists from the Centre d’études biologiques de Chizé count birds and measure stress hormones in Adélie penguins in order to gain a better understanding of the impact of the environment and human activity on their life cycle.
The long-awaited “Almirante Viel”, the second Antarctic vessel of the same name, is making her first tack in the South Pacific before embarking on ambitious logistical and scientific programmes.
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