The artist Marie Minary, who works with sculptures and painting, developed the project Pénélope together with the artists Maxime Vernier and Benoît Verdin and let her figurines tell a story about time, immobility, search, absence and love at the Belgian Antarctic...
Antarctica is largely isolated from pollution entering the atmosphere or ocean elsewhere on Earth. Nevertheless, deposits of soot particles can be detected in the snow of Antarctica, in particular on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Julia Hager Soot deposits accelerate...
When the “Endurance” was finally crushed by the pack ice of the Weddell Sea on November 21, 1915, it marked the start for Shackleton and his men to embark on a seemingly hopeless odyssey. The location of the ship’s sinking was recorded by Captain...
“Beyond EPICA” is one of several projects dedicated to finding the oldest ice in Antarctica. The EU-funded project consists of twelve European research institutions, including the University of Berne and the Alfred Wegener Institute. It is led by the...
The Ross Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica is the largest ice shelf in the world. Here, too, researchers fear increased melting, as on other Antarctic ice shelves. Using new probes both in the water and from the air, an international team of scientists has now...
