Avian flu detected in Adélie penguins in Antarctica
Initial results from an international expedition along the West Antarctic Peninsula reveal that Adélie penguins are unaffected carriers of avian flu.
Initial results from an international expedition along the West Antarctic Peninsula reveal that Adélie penguins are unaffected carriers of avian flu.
He’s back! Having returned from Antarctica, SLF technician Matthias Jaggi talks about new insights into snowpack structure.
Last Thursday and Friday, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Polar Symposium took place in the century-old Oceanographic Museum, between the Palais princier and the Mediterranean, bringing together scientists and experts, advocacy officers and directors of organizations, representatives of indigenous peoples and heads of state.
The French Navy’s Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM) has just returned from Antarctica. After 20 years’ absence from the region, it carried out its second consecutive survey of the seabed in uncharted areas around Dumont d’Urville.
To monitor the melting of the Antarctic and its effects on the balance of the Southern Ocean, a Spanish-Canadian association is installing a measuring point next to the Spanish Juan Carlos I base. It transmits data by satellite from the Antarctic Peninsula.
SLF technician Matthias Jaggi reports on his expedition to Antarctica. Part one: the arrival.
There are few animals that trigger such strong emotions as whales. Whales inspire – but whales also stir up emotions when it comes to whaling. And what happens after their death is explained here.
SLF technician Matthias Jaggi will spend the festive season in Antarctica. The luggage for his long expedition is travelling ahead of him.
Austrian polar mountaineer Dr. Christoph Höbenreich has explored the rarely visited mountain region of East Antarctica’s New Swabia on a new expedition.
The French Southern and Antarctic Territories lacked a multi-purpose vessel to unload equipment, men and women and which could adapt to the specificities of each archipelago.
Viking Expeditions has announced that a giant phantom jellyfish was spotted and photographed during a dive with an on-board submarine.
An international team of researchers has discovered five meteorites in Antarctica, including one that is among the largest, weighing 7.6 kilograms.
British polar adventurer Captain Preet Chandi set a new world record during her Antarctic expedition, but now has to break off the expedition.
This year, there are more expeditions in Antarctica than at any time in the last ten years.
Captain Harpreet Chandi wants to be the first woman to cross Antarctica on her second expedition – solo and unsupported.
A team of physicians, polar guides and physiologists are studying the metabolic costs of this challenging undertaking during their INSPIRE 22 expedition to the South Pole.
Only a few months after completing the “Arctic World Tour*, Omar Di Felice is ready to cross the southern continent with “Antarctica Unlimited”.
In honor of Amundsen’s 150th birthday, the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust wants to take young explorers on an expedition to the South Pole.
The first climb in Antarctica was made by physicist Louis Bernacchi and Carsten Borchgrevink at Cape Adare in Victoria Land in April 1899.
No longer directly on the continent of Antarctica, the ice-armored mountains of the subpolar islands must not be forgotten.
There are mountain trips that are unlike any other. In search of the most remote mountains on our planet, one inevitably comes to Antarctica at some point.
Hublot and the Polar Pod expedition enter into a partnership. The Polar Pod is an emission-free vessel to explore the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
The Endurance22 expedition has achieved the sensation – the team has found the wreck of the “Endurance” after weeks of searching!
The team of the “Endurance 22” expedition has arrived in the region of the Weddell Sea where the legendary Shackleton expedition ship “Endurance” had sunk.