As part of a new partnership, Windracers is providing the Norwegian research institute NORCE with two new ULTRA MK1 drones to support research at the Norwegian Troll Station in Antarctica.
With 41 days to go to the start, Oliver Heer, Justine Mettraux and Alan Roura finish preparing for the Vendée Globe. They will attempt to sail solo around the world via the Southern Ocean.
A deratting and mouse eradication team has just returned from the French Southern and Antarctic Lands after five months of operations. While we wait to be sure that the birds are free of these introduced predators, let’s take a look back at the implementation of this mission, the great success of South Georgia and the Mouse-Free Marion project.
Global warming is affecting not only the polar regions, but the entire cryosphere of the planet. A conference-debate organized by the French Embassy in Bern focuses on the Alps, which are also facing melting.
Food availability for seabirds, such as albatrosses that breed on sub-Antarctic islands, may decline as the nutrient-rich seasonal sea ice zone increasingly retreats due to global warming.
A landslide east of Greenland generated a mega-tsunami which vibrations were recorded around the world for nine days. The cause: global warming, which is weakening the Arctic.
A fleet of autonomous robots will soon be recording important parameters under Antarctic ice shelves in order to better understand the melting processes at the ice-water interface.
A team of researchers aboard the Amundsen is studying one of the planet’s best-preserved ice ecosystems, in anticipation of future changes.
France’s ambassador for the poles and oceans, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, talks about the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences proclaimed by the UN in mid-August and the progress of France’s Polar Strategy.
A new study of Thwaites Glacier’s susceptibility to what’s known as marine ice cliff instability offers some hope, according to a new study. But it doesn’t mean Thwaites is stable.
An article published by the European Geosciences Union takes stock of the retreat of the snow line from Arctic glaciers over the last forty years, while NASA has just released disturbing images of the glaciers of Svalbard.
Methane escapes from upland Arctic Yedoma permafrost soils in quantities that exceed those in regions further north by far – emissions that have only recently been discovered by researchers and are not yet taken into account in current climate models.
A research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute is investigating the environmental risks posed by drilling mud pits in the Canadian Mackenzie Delta.
The Australian Antarctic Program is preparing an observation tower equipped with environmental sensors, which will be part of the Antarctic Near-Shore and Terrestrial Observation System (ANTOS).
Close inspections of the soil beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet show that less than one million years ago it was almost entirely gone.
On the summer solstice, an international team of physicists and balloonists flew a helium-filled aerial vessel between Sweden and Canada to study the atmosphere from this high perch.
Both Greenland and the middle of Antarctica are currently experiencing a hot climate, although the reasons and type of climate are different.
An ambitious research project is surveying 16 glaciers to determine if increased levels of heavy metals in Arctic animals are related to glacial retreat.
A new report from the University of Chicago presents various measures that could slow down the melting of glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic in the future.
The redistribution of mass due to melting ice sheets, ice shelves and glaciers has an influence on the Earth’s rotation, affecting the length of the day and the position of the rotational axis.
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 project to extend the marine park of the Australian archipelago closest to Antarctica has just been opened to public consultation, and the question of fishing is inevitably on the agenda. Survey.
The number and intensity of wildfires currently raging north of the Arctic Circle are leading to high carbon emissions – the third highest for the Arctic in the month of June since 2003.
On the ice shelf, meltwater in the form of slush occurs more frequently than liquid meltwater accumulations in the Antarctic peak summer, but has not yet been sufficiently taken into account in climate models.
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