China on its 13th Arctic expedition
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.
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.
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.
Albatrosses have different personalities, and these “characters” influence their fishing strategies, which are intimately linked to wind strength.
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.
An outlook on polar sea ice development this year does not bode too well, especially in Antarctica.
An international research team off South Georgia investigated the sinking of tiny plastic particles in the Southern Ocean for the first time, the whereabouts of which have long been a mystery.
The amount of carbon transported from the water surface into the deep sea on the Western Antarctic Peninsula is primarily determined by the body size of Antarctic krill, not by its abundance
Sockeyes are the more commercially valuable species, but rules to protect Chinook that would affect all salmon fishing are giving fishermen an added incentive to take part in a monitoring programme aimed at stopping their decline
At a meeting to kick off the review of protected marine areas around South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, experts presented key results and achievements from the past five years of conservation efforts and research.
The British Antarctic Survey’s latest version of its polar maps reflect the dramatic changes that are taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic
Bedrock ground to powder by Greenland’s glaciers can bind significant amounts of carbon dioxide in acidic soils and also has great potential when used as a fertiliser for organically grown plants
Long a concern elsewhere, everyday chemicals such as caffeine, nicotine, medicines and UV filters have now been detected in the waters of parts of Antarctica where there is no human activity
A review of the research on large Arctic maritime species shows that just a few species and just a few areas are getting most of the attention
Female Arctic ground squirrels now have a hibernating period that is shorter than their potential mates’
Scientists at Japan’s Showa Station are study the ecology of fish living permanently under ice and their feeding habits by assessing their stomach contents
Atmospheric rivers transport large amount of water vapor from and to the polar regions thereby impacting our climate as well the Arctic and Antarctic and yet many questions remain unanswered.
Researchers discovered a parasitic barnacle on the hindquarters of a Greenland shark that was previously only known from lantern sharks
Seventy-five million years ago, the Antarctic Peninsula was covered, not by ice, but by forests that often burned
An on-line workshop and a Swiss agreement are two of the latest signs of the research community’s ever increasing interest in conducting research in Greenland
When at sea, elephant seals do deep sleep dives to take a nap and get no more than about two hours of sleep per day.
In the terrestrial troughs of Kerguelen, watered by the numerous atmospheric lows, 6 species of aquatic plants benefit from the nutrients brought to the island by marine animals.