A well-nourished polar bear in the Chukchi Sea region in summer looks like a good sign. Yet, the king of the Arctic is increasingly impacted by viruses, bacteria and parasites as a new study shows. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The Polar Retrospective looks back at events...
As part of their research, the University of Quebec is tagging Arctic hares on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic. Here, Ludovic Landry-Ducharme is in the process of catching one of them. Photo provided by: Ludovic Landry-Ducharme Ludovic Landry-Ducharme, an...
Plastic pollution is omnipresent on many of Svalbard’s beaches. (Photo: Julia Hager) Along with climate change, environmental pollution is one of the most pressing problems in the Arctic and Antarctic. For some years now, research has increasingly focussed on...
Ratmanoff walkers return to the colony on foot when they haven’t landed directly on it from the sea. Image: Camille Lin A Franco-Canadian study of king penguins in the largest colony on the Courbet Peninsula in Kerguelen shows that these birds are highly...
U.S. Station Palmer is one of three stations affected by the new USAP measures. Several penguin colonies are monitored in their vicinity, some for decades. And these are to be protected from the avian flu virus. (Photo: Michael Wenger) No visiting any seabird colony...