Urgent call for more research in the Southern Ocean
The first international symposium on the Southern Ocean Observing System, held last week in Hobart, Australia, ended with an urgent call to significantly expand research in the Southern Ocean.
The first international symposium on the Southern Ocean Observing System, held last week in Hobart, Australia, ended with an urgent call to significantly expand research in the Southern Ocean.
According to a study, 4 out of 5 emperor penguin colonies in the Bellinghausen Sea lost all their chicks last southern spring due to poor ice conditions. This does not bode well for this year with its record low sea ice.
As polar bears walk across snow and ice, they leave tiny skin particles in their paw prints, which a University of Idaho research team used to identify individual bears based on genetic analysis.
Wildfires continue to rage across Canada, forcing the evacuation of several cities. The Northwest Territories are particularly hard hit as is the boreal forest.
A new strategy at the prefecture of the Southern and Antarctic French Territories (TAAF) continues a promising dynamic for France’s polar heritage, which is growing with new objects and documents.
The population of narwhals in East Greenland is far from stable, according to scientists, yet the Greenlandic government aims to maintain the annual hunting quota of 50 animals for 2024.
A joint team from the Franco-Swiss Alpine regions has published an article in Nature exploring the natural areas that will be exposed by retreating glaciers between now and 2100, calling for recognition of this unique character and the services these areas provide to humanity.
Microplastics ingested by whales, dolphins and seals do not necessarily remain in their digestive tract or are excreted but can enter the fatty tissue of various body parts or even the lungs.
A study conducted near an Australian station reveals significant marine pollution linked to poor waste management.
A team of paleontologists has excavated the tooth of an extinct mammal, a contemporary of the Arctic dinosaurs, from a Cretaceous coniferous forest.
The ship, currently under construction, will be Japan’s first icebreaking research vessel in the Arctic and will be operated by Japanese MOL group.
Researchers have just developed a new method for studying the extent of pack ice, using fiber optic lines – an ingenious idea that uses accessible technology in an inaccessible region.
To reduce the effects of increased solar radiation on ice melt, Earth should be dimmed, but Swiss researchers warn against this.
The Southern Ocean plays a crucial role in the Earth’s climate system and its monitoring is therefore to be intensified. To this end, scientists are now discussing it at the SOOS meeting in Hobart, Australia.
The Fondation Pacifique takes young scientists on board to explore the Northwest Passage, starting in the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Greenland, then along the west coast of Kalaallit Nunaat.
In the 1970s, the geographer Bent Hasholt wanted to conduct research that mattered to society – so he started calculating rainfall in his free time.
A study indicates that extreme events in Antarctica will increase, not least due to climate change, and it calls existing environmental protection protocols into question.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation plays a crucial role for the global climate. But since the early 2000s, it has been weakening, and there is growing concern about a possible collapse of the circulation system.
An extensive study shows that the gestation period of Bowhead whales may last 23 months. So far, a 14-month pregnancy has been assumed.
The full-time crew of the Vagabond, which has been criss-crossing the Arctic for over 20 years on behalf of science, welcomes a team of geologists from the French Polar Institute in southern Greenland.
Since more eyes detect aggressors earlier, king penguins are better protected in very dense groups, despite more hostilities with neighbors.
Soon, the entire world will be able to listen live to the unique Arctic underwater sounds in Greenland’s Disko Bay: Starting next spring, an acoustic monitoring station near Qeqertarsuaq will record the sounds of marine mammals.
Krill is fished by five countries in Antarctica, and other countries could have their sights on this enormous source of protein. Philip N. Philip N. Trathan, a biologist with 30 years’ experience in international committees dealing with this subject, shows how to maintain the principle of precaution, the cornerstone of this activity.
In the heart of the Antarctic winter, Russian scientists from the Vostok station feast on watermelons they have managed to grow on site.