Lacking beds in McMurdo leads to canceling research projects
In Antarctica, 67 research projects were canceled or cut back at US McMurdo Station due to a lack of beds for researchers.
In Antarctica, 67 research projects were canceled or cut back at US McMurdo Station due to a lack of beds for researchers.
An inventory of place-name projects is now available online as an interactive map. A tool that can be useful to both the scientific world and indigenous communities.
Down the road, climate change will make it very difficult for emperor penguins to find a suitable location to breed.
Cruise ships in Antarctica represent a non-negligible scientific platform for monitoring bird communities, according to British and Norwegian scientists who experimented with this mode of observation between 2019 and 2020.
With the start of the new Antarctic season 23/24, the IAATO has put into force several new measures to protect whale populations on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Last week the autumn session of the parliament opened in Greenland. Amid resignations and changes within the government, the first project presented, the new Finance Act, will not receive the support of the parties who are concerned about a possible VAT on the island.
The TRIPLE-nanoAUV 2 is being developed at the German MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen. It will be tested in Antarctica in 2026 before being used in space.
The One Planet – Polar Summit will welcome scientists, explorers, funders, NGOs and political representatives, to formalise a discourse on the collapse of the cryosphere and unite countries around this cause.
The rising costs of whaling and the lack of demand for whale meat could spell the end for the harvest of the marine mammals as early as next year. Tourism could profit from this.
U.S. officials are setting stricter rules for their Antarctic season this year to prevent the introduction of avian flu by their personnel.
Fewer fish and more otaries could be behind the growing number of fur seals dying as a result of collisions or drowning in fishing nets. The South Atlantic Institute for Environmental Research has published the initial results of its scientific investigation in the hope of improving fisheries management.
Fish in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas appear to have little exposure to mercury and PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals”
More than 300 solar panels will supply power to a former radio station in Svalbard. A full-scale test as Svalbard implements its energy transition.
As winter draws to a close, volunteers at the French Polar Institute are threatening their organization and denouncing the precariousness of their Volontariat de Service Civique (VSC) and disproportionate working hours.
A tsunami of unknown origin has devastated the Sirius Patrol station in northeastern Greenland.
A report has just established that the main mines of critical raw materials, essential to EU countries, are in Greenland.
The lack of ice-going vessels is holding back the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Indian and Chinese shipyards hope to jump into the gap and construct vessels.
The Que Sera has been hired by Pacifique, a Geneva-based foundation that combines science, education and art on board its sailing ships. They have just crossed the Canadian Arctic, with its tortuous inlets, ice and gales.
After the incident around the “Ocean Explorer” in the East Greenlandic Alpefjord, expedition tourism stands in the focus of the government, which intends stricter regulations.
Designers draw inspiration from sea ice patterns collected during the MOSAiC expedition to create clothes presented at New York Fashion Week.
Sea ice cover in the Southern Ocean has remained well below the long-term average practically since the beginning of this year, leading scientists to conclude that Antarctic sea ice has entered a new state.
If we maintain the current climate, the rate of melting of the Antarctic glaciers will reach a point of no return within 400 years on average, but each additional tenth of a degree of warming brings us closer to this deadline.
Reducing the risk of introducing harmful species and pathogens into South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is the priority of the Biosecurity Handbook’s new edition that has just been published online.
Scientists and Alliance of Concerned Nations urge UN New York Climate Ambition Summit to “take 2°C off the table” to Prevent Catastrophic Impacts from Melting Ice