The cruise vessel “MSC Meraviglia” with a capacity of 5,714 passengers in the port of Longyerbyen (Spitsbergen). Visits are likely to get a little tight in the town of 2,800 inhabitants. (Photo: Port of Longearbyen) The development of polar tourism Voyages...
An emperor penguin colony near the ice edge photographed during an aerial survey. Photo: Sara Labrousse High-resolution satellite images enabled an international research team to document the global population development of emperor penguins for the first time:...
More than 4,500 women and girls in Greenland were implanted with an IUD (left) in the 1960s and 70s, often without their consent. Denmark wanted to achieve birth control in this way. ICC President Sara Olsvig (right) believes that this is a breach of the basic human...
The German Neumayer Station in Antarctica is just one of the 64 research facilities that researchers can use as part of the POLARIN network. Photo: Klaus Guba The EU is funding the new POLARIN (Polar Research Infrastructure Network) research infrastructure project...
Argentinian scientists found two dead skuas near the “Primavera” station on the Antarctic Peninsula. At the Spanish research station on Deception Island, it was confirmed that they were carriers of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. Photo: Michael Wenger...