Arctic Council approves Russian biosecurity project
Russia, as chair of the Arctic Council, has proposed a project to combat viruses that have been hidden under the permafrost for more than 30,000 years.
Russia, as chair of the Arctic Council, has proposed a project to combat viruses that have been hidden under the permafrost for more than 30,000 years.
Only about one and a half years after the largest Arctic research expedition ever, the scientists provide a complete picture of climate processes in the Central Arctic for the first time.
Very old carbon stocks in permafrost that have not been adequately accounted for could further accelerate global warming.
A new study shows that ocean eddies may be the reason why Antarctic sea ice is not behaving as climate models predict.
The pandemic almost prevented the eight-man expedition team from returning from the Antarctic Peninsula – rescue came from an expedition tour operator.
The amount of carbon dioxide that is released back into the atmosphere by storms has significance in global climate change, according to a new study.
AWI researchers model how climate change has altered the ice sheet over the past thousand years and could affect it in the future.
Dealing with it will be hugely expensive
In early February, the “Endurance22” expedition departs from Cape Town in a renewed attempt to locate and investigate the wreckage of the lost ship.
A fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles will collect important data under and around the fragile glacier in Antarctica over the next two months.
As a result of extreme heat with temperatures of 44°C, hundreds of Magellanic penguins died near Punta Tombo in Argentina in January 2019.
In the Canadian Arctic they breed together in the same spots, but after the breeding season the three smallest Stercorarius species take completely different routes.
A new record was set with a temperature of 38° Celsius in the Russian city of Verkhoyansk. This was confirmed by the WMO of the United Nations.
NOAA’s latest report shows how climate change in the Arctic has altered different regions and paints a dramatic picture
Arctic wildlife, which is specialized for surviving in snow and ice, will likely have to adapt to wetter conditions in the future, and the question remains whether they can.
Antarctic sea ice is shrinking and numerous emperor penguin colonies are losing their habitat, prompting an official proposal in the U.S. to list the species as “threatened”.
Contrary to earlier assumptions, climate change does have an impact on the circumpolar current that surrounds Antarctica.
The International Arctic Hub platform has been active for about a year and went online with its new website a few days ago.
Juvenile fur seal males eat so much Antarctic krill in winter that this amount should be considered in the management of the krill fishery.
Since the last ice age, the Antarctic ice sheet has lost huge amounts of ice several times in a very short period of time, a new study now shows.
Plumes of dust from Greenland heralding the coming of winter are made up a material that scientists say can be used elsewhere
The sounds of belugas and narwhals are very similar and difficult to distinguish. Researchers have now found that the echolocation clicks of the two species show significant differences.
Weddell seals do not yet appear to be much affected by climate change, while crabeater seals are more likely to suffer as warming continues.
A new study shows that the concentration of black carbon in the Arctic is strongly correlated with forest fires occurring at mid-latitudes.