Sea ice models for Antarctica strongly improved
The models being created for the future course of Antarctic sea ice have undergone significant improvements, according to a new analysis.
The models being created for the future course of Antarctic sea ice have undergone significant improvements, according to a new analysis.
A new study of heavy metals in Alaska’s permafrost soils shows increased amounts and at the same time large gaps in the data situation.
Lakes in the northern latitudes are a major source of methane. New measurement methods help to detect these.
The only winged insect in Antarctica could serve as a herald of impending climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Researchers from the US and Australia have been able to demonstrate for the first time that the air over the Souther Ocean and Antarctica is virtually free of human influences.
Forest fires in Siberia are bringing even more misery to an area already closed off because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Scientists cooperated with Inuit in Greenland to capture rare sounds of narwhals and to learn more about the animals’ way of life.
Thanks to the corona-related restrictions, marine life currently is better able to communicate with each other, hunt more effectively and orientate themselves in a easier way.
Researchers show in a study that an abrupt thawing of permafrost increases emissions by 40 percent.
Southern elephant seals equipped with data loggers provide insights into the secrets of their bioluminescent prey and their hunting techniques.
Danish researchers have found that large amounts of nitrous oxide are produced in king penguin colonies when the guano is broken down by soil bacteria.
Researchers have shown that green snow algae are an important CO2 sink on the Antarctic Peninsula and they continue to spread with the warming of the continent.
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.
In the Weddell Sea, thicker snow blankets on the ice affect seabed creatures before the ice situation had changed.
The rock ptarmigans on Svalbard slow down their immune systems in winter to save energy.
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.
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.
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