The polar regions are an important area for China’s rise to global power. Indeed, it has has long-term strategic and economic interests in the Arctic. These are some of the reasons for its activities there. (Photo: CHINARE) The Arctic Ocean has long been at the...
Most areas of the world’s oceans, especially the polar oceans, were up to 5°C warmer on July 22 than the average between 1991 – 2020, NOAA’s map shows (Graphic: NOAA) Many countries in Europe, parts of the USA and Canada, and also large parts of...
The decline in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is no fiction anymore, despite annual fluctuations. This leads to larger areas of water that are in exchange with the atmosphere. This again puts more CO2 into the water and changes the pH value in the direction of...
You can’t see it in the ocean or sea ice, but microplastics are found everywhere in the Arctic. Photo: Julia Hager Since the start of plastic production in the 1950s, environmental input of plastic is so massive that is found in every habitat on earth: in the...
The areas of the central Arctic Ocean are still poorly explored. Beneath the pack ice, however, lies a far richer fauna than previously thought. Picture: Michael Wenger The MOSAiC expedition, which spent over a year in the Arctic Ocean, was a bit like the starship...
