The ice drilling team’s base camp on the Ross Ice Shelf. Below them is a massive meltwater river. Photo: Craig Stevens/NIWA The Ross Ice Shelf, the largest on Earth, is far from having revealed all its secrets. There are still many questions that need to be...
In addition to carbon dioxide, the short-lived greenhouse gases methane and nitrogen oxide, as well as particles of soot and sulfur, are causing the atmosphere to warm, with the strongest effects already being felt in the polar regions. Photo: Julia Hager The Paris...
To create the new topographic map of the Antarctic seafloor, countless multibeam measurements were made by research vessels such as Polarstern. Photo: Folke Mehrtens The topography of the ocean floor helps determine how water masses and currents move in the oceans and...
A New Zealand research team has detected microplastic particles in all snow samples from the Ross Ice Shelf. Photo: Michael Wenger After all the previous reports of microplastics in the most remote regions of the world, including various habitats in Antarctica, the...
The research team collected and analyzed soil samples from different regions of the Antarctic Peninsula, which revealed a wide diversity of microorganisms. Photo: University of Chile The soils and ice of the polar regions are still home to numerous previously...
