The research expedition led the Japanese scientists to the Shirase Glacier in Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. Normally, the bay is inaccessible to ships even in summer, because the sea ice which is connected to the land, also called fast ice, makes it impossible...
Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella), here a male, live on islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. The largest population lives on South Georgia. Photo: Julia Hager The whiskers play an essential role for seals in their search for food. Thanks to their...
Other than previously assumed, penguins do not originally come from Antarctica, but, starting from Australia and New Zealand, settled on the white continent a little later. Photo: Dr Michael Wenger For a long time scientists thought that penguins originated in...
With the help of LIDAR technology – special lasers – the scientists gained new insights into atmospheric waves over Antarctica and how they are related to winds at the equator. Photo: Danny Hampton, Ian Geraghty, Zimu Li/CIRES A team of researchers led by...
In Argentina’s southernmost city of Ushuaia, from where part of the armed forces once marched towards the Falkland Islands, the country’s claims to the Falkland Islands, known as Malvinas, are omnipresent. But the conflict over them still echoes in many...
