Migration of the Southern Right Whales
After centuries of exploitation, the stocks of the slow giants are recovering and scientists are discovering new details about their migrations.
After centuries of exploitation, the stocks of the slow giants are recovering and scientists are discovering new details about their migrations.
A dinosaur fossil discovered five years ago doesn’t turn out to be a new species, but shows how far north dinosaurs had lived.
Scientists found toxic persistent organic compounds – the degradation products of CFC-replacement substances – in ice cores from the high Arctic.
Southern Alaska is home to an impressive variety of lichen species. Researchers found more than 1,300 species within the national parks.
It seems almost paradoxical: there is water ice on Mercury, which is heated by the nearby sun.
The latest map of Antarctica shows previously hidden areas of Antarctica, new coastlines and the new ice front of Thwaites Glacier.
In the Weddell Sea, thicker snow blankets on the ice affect seabed creatures before the ice situation had changed.
Financial difficulties and the Corona pandemic force the whalers (for the time being) to remain in port.
The rock ptarmigans on Svalbard slow down their immune systems in winter to save energy.
Researchers have scientifically shown that traditional clothing made of reindeer fur provides better protection from the Arctic cold than modern army clothing.
Forty years ago, French researchers developed the technique, which is still established today, of measuring carbon dioxide from air bubbles in ice.
Taking water samples from an Antarctic lake under 800 meters of ice requires days of drilling.
Cherry tomatoes grow in a shipping container in Arctic Nunavut. The heat and light they need comes from wind and solar energy.
On February 14, 2020, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research cancelled the tender for the new procurement of the “Polarstern II”.
Australian researchers have for the first time cultivated soil organisms in the laboratory that are capable of detecting soil contamination by metals.
The Australian Antarctic Division has been studying Adélie penguins and other seabirds on Béchervaise Island for more than 30 years, allowing them to monitor changes in the colonies very closely.
Excessive hunting of walruses by Vikings who settled in Greenland was one of the factors that led to the collapse of their settlements in the 15th century.
In Shanghai, the Chinese Shipbuilding Industry Corporation presented a model and technical specifications for a massive icebreaker with conventional propulsion.
New high-resolution radar data from East Antarctica show: The 1.5 million-year-old ice lies at a depth of about 2550 meters of the ice sheet
Does life find a way to exist after thousands of years of seclusion in lakes locked under Antarctic ice. That’s the question a team of researchers and drilling engineers is trying to answer at Mercer Subglacial Lake.
Researchers have found that humpback whales use their long pectoral fins like barriers or spoons to bring fish into their massive mouths.
The king of the Arctic is still surprisingly contaminated with environmental toxins. According to new analyses, in addition to previously detected substances, many other harmful chemicals are found in polar bears’ bodies.
With the arrival of the Vikings to Iceland 1,100 years ago, walruses were probably hunted to extinction.
Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute have studied glaciers at close range with the help of ringed seals.