Penguins not originated in Antarctica
According to a new study, the flightless birds only immigrated to Antarctica and were previously at home in more moderate latitudes.
According to a new study, the flightless birds only immigrated to Antarctica and were previously at home in more moderate latitudes.
For the first time, researchers observed that atmospheric circulations at the equator and above the poles are connected.
Musk oxen have faced many challenges since the end of the ice age. Now there is another: a bacterium.
Known to the locals as the “gateway to the underworld”, “Batagaika” is the biggest result of permafrost thawing on the planet.
Before the closure of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station for winter, the construction of the new garage was finished.
Experts have reconstructed the depth of the Southern Ocean at key phases in the last 34 million years of the Antarctic’s climate history
Canada’s last intact ice shelf has collapsed and released a huge block of ice into the Arctic Ocean.
Eleven additional colonies of emperor penguins were discovered by British researchers using Sentinel2 images from space.
A comprehensive new study shows that ice sheets once covered Mars and shaped the characteristic valleys.
The resolution of satellite images is so high that it is possible to identify whales – perfect for research in remote regions. Scientists are now working to improve the method.
Scientists are working to recover the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth from a lake in northern Siberia.
An active methane seep was first discovered on the seabed just outside close to the US research station McMurdo in Antarctica.
A tsunami warning was issued Tuesday night after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake had struck off Alaska’s southern coast.
Changes in the Arctic Ocean are much more profound than previously thought due to warmer water masses from the south and are already a reality.
The concentration of algae has increased sharply over the past two decades, so that the Arctic Ocean removes more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Less than a third of Antarctica’s wilderness areas are truly untouched and most of the regions with high biodiversity are outside of it.
Beluga groups across the Arctic are much more complex societies than previously thought.
A fossilized jawbone of a baby dinosaur shows that Alaska was the home of these large lizards during the Cretaceous period.
A drilling project in Greenland aims to take a look at the island’s recent climate history by examining the rock under the ice sheet rather than the ice.
As part of the national project ‘Ecology’, the Bear Island reserve is being created in the Russian Republic of Sacha.
About 35 million years ago, Canada, the US, and Japan were home to birds that were strikingly similar to the early penguins of New Zealand.
Off the west coast of Greenland, researchers have discovered deep-sea coral gardens and now hope to protect them from fishing.
Elephant seals and the latest robotic devices have helped to collect important data on currents in the Weddell Sea in particular and generally at the sea ice edge.
For the first time, researchers were able to demonstrate how plastic particles enter the Antarctic food web.