Medical use for Antarctic seaweed?
Antarctic algae may have a stronger health-promoting effect than their relatives from warmer latitudes.
Antarctic algae may have a stronger health-promoting effect than their relatives from warmer latitudes.
Svalbard is facing changes on multiple scales. An ethnological study analyzing this process, and the issues that come with it, has just been published.
Reports emerged on July 25 that the research vessel “Mikhail Somov” ran aground near the Franz Josef Land archipelago. Apparently, there is no danger of fuel leakage.
From the deck of their magnificent sailing boat, in a breathtaking natural scenery, researchers are studying an opportunistic sea lily that hitchhikes on the back of a crab.
Australian airline operator Rex Airlines gets ambitious and plans to become the next flight operator for the Australian Antarctic Division as stated in an press release.
Dozens of dead Magellanic penguins have been found daily on Uruguay’s beaches since the beginning of this month. It is estimated that a total of up to 2,000 animals could wash up.
Postmenopausal female orcas protect their sons from aggressive social interactions. Their daughters, on the other hand, do not benefit from this same maternal treatment.
Many countries in Europe, parts of the USA and Canada, and also large parts of Russia are currently experiencing massive heat waves. Anyone thinking that a dip in the sea will cool things down will be disappointed, because the oceans are also affected by an unprecedented rise in temperature. Since May/June, this has been extending […]
China’s 13th Arctic expedition team set sail on a mission that is expected to last until the end of September and cover a voyage of 15,500 nautical miles.
A study lifts the veil on the evolutionary origins of the tundra, a vast Arctic biome shaped by falling temperatures and rising grounds.
The forest fires ravaging Canada have also reached the Arctic, raising questions about the consequences for this region already largely affected by global warming.
Sometimes bad space weather causes our communication systems to break down – particularly in the Arctic. For this reason Ph.D. fellow Sarah Schultz Beeck is developing maps, showing where in Greenland the space weather causes bad or no connection.
The blood-red color of the famous Blood Falls in Antarctica mainly comes from small oxidized nanospheres made of various materials and rich in iron.
On Mayes Island in the Kerguelen archipelago, white-headed petrels fall into two categories: those that breed every year and those that only return every other year.
Exceptional images of a species of octopus from the Cirrina order reveal some hidden talents of the Dumbo octopus living at the bottom of the Fram Strait in the Arctic Ocean.
Satellite imagery of the Russian coastline in summer 2016 enabled scientists to identify beluga whale populations in the far south of the Kara Sea.
Alaska’s distinct — and endangered — beluga whale population faces numerous threats to its recovery. A lack of public support is not one of them
The scientific directrice at the Swiss Polar Institute, Professor Dr. Gabriela Schaepmann-Strub will step down from her position at the end of August.
Albatrosses have different personalities, and these “characters” influence their fishing strategies, which are intimately linked to wind strength.
One of the regions most affected by climate change is Greenland. Its mainly Inuit population is seeing the effects, but to the great surprise of a sociological survey, many are unaware of the causes and of human responsibility.
A brand new study shows that macaroni penguins migrate more than 2,500 kilometers down to the Antarctic pack ice to reach their preferred food.
China’s ambitions in the polar regions get another boost with the construction start of its third polar-going vessel, which will also carry deep-sea submersibles
Physicists planning big at the South Pole are facing a tough test of patience as the US National Science Foundation is forced to postpone the construction of new telescopes and neutrino detectors due to pressing infrastructure problems.
Swiss researchers discovered microorganisms in Greenland, Svalbard and the Alps that produce enzymes that can break down plastic even at relatively cool temperatures.