Sonobuoy study suggests Antarctic blue whale population is increasing
The study analyzed data across the Southern Ocean from 2006 until 2021.
The study analyzed data across the Southern Ocean from 2006 until 2021.
An emblematic animal of the Far North, the polar bear is regularly the subject of scientific research, notably in zoos, to better study and understand the King of the Arctic.
Some researchers have recently proposed the construction of artificial structures – submarine curtains or walls – to stop the warming ocean from getting to the most rapidly melting glaciers in West Antarctica.
Lack of rest time, training and equipment, working conditions can be difficult for foreign guides working in Lapland.
Last Thursday and Friday, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Polar Symposium took place in the century-old Oceanographic Museum, between the Palais princier and the Mediterranean, bringing together scientists and experts, advocacy officers and directors of organizations, representatives of indigenous peoples and heads of state.
On the occasion of International Polar Bear Day, PolarJournal takes stock of the king of the Arctic in Greenland with an interview of Fernando Ugarte.
Three new communities in the Eastern Hudson Bay region have been connected to the fibre-optic network, according to an announcement by Hilda Snowball, President of the Kativik region, on Monday.
A new study has just documented an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in the villages and communities of northern Canada. The solutions are multi-factorial, but essentially depend on the food sovereignty of indigenous peoples.
When two scientists team up with a filmmaker, the result is Nittaituq. A short film made in a Nunavut village, documenting the Inuit’s approach to climate change.
From the convolutions of frozen rivers to the concentration of plankton and sediment, from the advance of a glacier to the symmetry of ice, satellite images of the polar regions offer a breathtaking spectacle.
The polar bear outlines and fills the Arctic with its wanderings, to the point of touching the imagination of human beings, who live close to them. Its image is sometimes used for more or less noble purposes. In his essay in French, Rémy Marion attempts to restore the “ice wanderer’s” natural gait.
SLF technician Matthias Jaggi reports on his expedition to the Antarctic. Part three: lugging crates, digging holes and penal labour.
The Polar Issues Chair led by Anne Choquet and Brest’s maritime higher education courses looked at the profession of polar guide, at the heart of the controversy surrounding tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic.
One of the most prolific cities for studying the Arctic regions is going from strength to strength, with the Centre for Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (iC3) attracting more and more international scientists to study the carbon cycle in the polar regions.
An investigation found that some whales were dead before becoming ensnared, but critics of bottom trawling have more questions about this year’s large death toll.
Many scientists are calling for a roadmap of polar ecosystems to help them better understand and preserve them.
These are very special French territories, as much for their biodiversity as for their administrative system, whose specific features reflect these “marginal lands at the heart of territorial issues”.
SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists – and climate change.
A book about a major scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean, a well-illustrated groundbreaking experience in the study of the ocean, ice and climate of the polar regions, aimed at a wide audience.
The first day of the One Planet – Polar Summit ended with informal discussions yesterday after 10pm alongside the animals in the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle’s evolution gallery, while it started in the middle of the gardens, in the Verniquet amphitheatre, with the launch of the forum.
Scientists have tested new radar technologies for locating dens, aiming to increase protection for mother polar bears and their cubs.
The Antarctic ice shelves are melting rapidly, particularly in the west of the continent. Research based on satellite images shows that 40% of shelves are affected.
As winter draws to a close, volunteers at the French Polar Institute are threatening their organization and denouncing the precariousness of their Volontariat de Service Civique (VSC) and disproportionate working hours.
A study lifts the veil on the evolutionary origins of the tundra, a vast Arctic biome shaped by falling temperatures and rising grounds.