As part of his dissertation, Dr. Singh Sehra spent a total of 18 months in Antarctica and, together with Soviet researchers, made a circumnavigation of the continent and became the first Indian to overwinter at Molodezhnaya Station. Image: courtesy of Dr. Singh Sehra...
The leopard seal is just one of many species whose sounds will be included in the new GLUBS library. Photo: Heiner Kubny The ocean and the rivers and lakes together represent the largest habitat on earth. What is mostly hidden to us humans is the variety of sounds...
The OFBOS images show the icefish and their nests spread over an area of more than 240 square kilometers. A total of 60 million (!) nests are extrapolated to the mapped area. Video: AWI Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research...
The plan was to prepare the new “Vostok” station for occupancy in about three years and to offer researchers the best opportunities for their work. With the failure of the icebreaker “Sevmorput”, it is likely to be a year later. (Photo:...
On the volcanically active South Sandwich Islands, most chinstrap penguins breed thanks to the warm slopes of the volcanoes. Due to the rising warmth, these places are almost snow-free, offer enough nesting material and the waters around the archipelago are rich in...