by Julia Hager | Sep 15, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
A section measuring about 110 square kilometers has broken off the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic and is thus experiencing a similarly rapid melting as other ice shelves that have disappeared before.
by Dr. Michael Wenger | Sep 15, 2020 | Science, Science
The massive retreat of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is due to a weakening caused by damages on its sides.
by Julia Hager | Sep 14, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
Climate change is increasingly influencing which arctic plants are efficiently pollinated and which are not, as a new study has found.
by Dr. Michael Wenger | Sep 14, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
On a Russian island, scientists have discovered the almost perfectly preserved remains of an adult cave bear.
by Julia Hager | Sep 12, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
According to a new study, viruses that occur in small melt pools on glaciers in Greenland, Spitsbergen and in the Alps hardly differ from each other.
by Heiner Kubny | Sep 10, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
The ice cover of the Bering Sea has reached a new low that has been unprecedented in thousands of years.
by Dr. Michael Wenger | Sep 9, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
The Thwaites expedition has discovered a possible reason for the glacier’s high melting rate: deep channels with warm water masses under the glacier tongue
by Dr. Michael Wenger | Sep 8, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
Last year’s massive fires, which survived like zombies in the tundra soils, could occur regularly.
by Heiner Kubny | Sep 4, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Expeditions, MOSAiC, North, Science, Science
After a Corona-related forced break, the German research aircraft Polar 5 and Polar 6 took off again for measurement flights.
by Heiner Kubny | Sep 2, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
More and more mysterious craters are being discovered in Siberia. A Russian professor says he has discovered seven larger holes so far.
by Julia Hager | Aug 27, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
After two female gentoo penguins started nesting, their keepers slipped an egg underneath them
by Dr. Michael Wenger | Aug 27, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
The salmon that move to the rivers of Alaska for spawning have become smaller and smaller over the past 60 years because they are returning earlier and earlier.
by Julia Hager | Aug 26, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
Under the Shirase glacier tongue in East Antarctica, the ice is melting surprisingly fast due to the continuous inflow of warm seawater into Lützow-Holm Bay.
by Heiner Kubny | Aug 26, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record ice loss in 2019. This is shown by latest scientific evaluations.
by Julia Hager | Aug 21, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
Australian researchers used whiskers and blood samples from Antarctic fur seals to reconstruct their diet and make conclusions about the dynamics of the Southern Ocean food web.
by Heiner Kubny | Aug 20, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
Pacific Walrus started to gather earlier than usual on land, on a beach at the Chukchi Sea.
by Julia Hager | Aug 19, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
According to a new study, the flightless birds only immigrated to Antarctica and were previously at home in more moderate latitudes.
by Julia Hager | Aug 18, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
For the first time, researchers observed that atmospheric circulations at the equator and above the poles are connected.
by Heiner Kubny | Aug 18, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science
Musk oxen have faced many challenges since the end of the ice age. Now there is another: a bacterium.
by Heiner Kubny | Aug 14, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
Known to the locals as the “gateway to the underworld”, “Batagaika” is the biggest result of permafrost thawing on the planet.
by Heiner Kubny | Aug 12, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science, technology
Before the closure of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station for winter, the construction of the new garage was finished.
by Julia Hager | Aug 10, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
Experts have reconstructed the depth of the Southern Ocean at key phases in the last 34 million years of the Antarctic’s climate history
by Heiner Kubny | Aug 10, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, Science
Canada’s last intact ice shelf has collapsed and released a huge block of ice into the Arctic Ocean.
by Dr. Michael Wenger | Aug 5, 2020 | Archive, Science, Science, technology
Eleven additional colonies of emperor penguins were discovered by British researchers using Sentinel2 images from space.
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