Jacques Bazin, ice pilot with the French Navy: “Navigating in ice is like playing billiards with 150,000 banks, where you have to anticipate and detect passages.” Image: Virgil Decourteille / French Polar Institute The French Navy’s Hydrographic and...
The polar regions are an important area for China’s rise to global power. Indeed, it has has long-term strategic and economic interests in the Arctic. These are some of the reasons for its activities there. (Photo: CHINARE) The Arctic Ocean has long been at the...
During the southern summer months, sei whales like to spend time around the Falkland Islands. There they find food and, according to the latest results, probably also mating partners for later. Image: Dr. Caroline Weir, Falkland Conservation Fortunately, the days when...
Fin whales are the second largest marine mammals, measuring around 25 meters in length and weighing up to 120 tons. In the southern hemisphere, they eat mainly krill and fish, which they often hunt in loose groups. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) Fin whales are...
Common minke whales (Minkies, Balaenoptera acutorostrata) are the second smallest baleen whales. They grow to around 10 metres in length and weigh between 2 and 4 tonnes. Because of their size and weight, they were not hunted by whalers for a long time. Only through...