A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level
New research shows how individual weather events can have long-term effects on the world’s largest ice sheets.
New research shows how individual weather events can have long-term effects on the world’s largest ice sheets.
With the rapid melting of the ice masses covering Greenland, the island has risen by 20 cm in 10 years. A situation that will pose certain problems for Greenland.
The changes to the landscape in Greenland are unmistakable: The ice is melting, vegetation is spreading – almost 30,000 square kilometers of ice have disappeared in the last 30 years.
A contemporary French diplomat, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor projects himself into the year 2048, when the Antarctic Treaty expires, the balance of power shifts towards mining or maintaining the embargo, and it becomes possible to communicate with birds.
Sparing energy or spend it to find calories. On land, polar bears have little choice but these two alternatives, even if both fail to maintain polar bears’ body mass.
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) discovered that apparently little nutritious jellyfish make up a considerable part of the diet of amphipods during the polar night.
French ethnologist and geographer Jean Malaurie died on February 5 in France at the age of 101. PolarJournal looks back at the career of a passionate and committed man.
Since 2007, the Czech Antarctic Programme has made a number of discoveries on Antarctica.
The scientific team of the SWAIS 2C project has successfully completed the first stage and recovered the first sediment cores.
The release period after the breeding season can quickly resemble a sea voyage where the penguins have to choose one route over another… a story of compromise.
The cooling of relations between the West and Russia is having a major impact on the study of changes in the Arctic, affecting the ability to monitor climate change.
The eroding riverbank is unpredictable, and families are forced to move to other exposed areas to continue their subsistence farming.
Global warming may be disrupting the polar vortex causing cold air outbreaks in southern parts of the world.
The unprecedented heatwave that hit East Antarctica almost two years ago could be traced back to an intense atmospheric river from lower latitudes.
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.
By 2100, the acidity of Antarctic coastal waters could double. A threat to ecosystems and animal life in the Southern Ocean.
Norway has just opened its seabed to mining over an area stretching from Svalbard to Jan Mayen Island.
On his first official visit to Antarctica, Argentina new president was accompanied by the IAEA director to launch a new project to combat microplastic pollution.
The moss Sanionia uncinata could possibly serve as an indicator species for climate change in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
In Svalbard, freshwater fish benefit from slightly warmer water than usual in the lakes they inhabit, which could be increasingly beneficial for fishing, at least as long as the glaciers remain.
Unable to hunt and fish due to climate change, hunters in northern Greenland have asked the government for help.
A well-kept mystery seems to have been solved: During the last interglacial period, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet apparently melted completely, causing global sea levels to rise by several meters.
The year 2023 saw several projects and events aimed at strengthening the self-determination and presence of circumpolar Indigenous populations in the Arctic
The 19th edition of ArcticNet ASM2023 scientific meeting was held in the Arctic for the first time, and focused among other topics on Inuit representation in scientific research.