Krill is the most important food resource for whales in Antarctica and its availability determines whether female humpback whales become pregnant or not. Photo: Michael Wenger Antarctic krill is one of the most abundant species on our planet. However, its total...
This is where the king of the Arctic is at home: on the sea ice. But it melts away under his paws and he is more and more often forced to search for food on land, which results increasingly in conflicts with humans. Photo: Julia Hager The recent attack by a polar bear...
Object left by Australian explorers in Mawson’s Huts, sometimes referred to as “the birthplace of Australian Antarctic heritage”. Image: David Killick Microscopic germs flourish in the frames of the shelters built during the heroic age of polar...
The north of Greenland has long been considered somewhat more resistant to global warming than the rest of the island, in part because of the remaining multi-year ice cover in the region. But in recent years, the ice here has also been breaking up with increasing...
Glaciers such as Monacobreen on Svalbard will lose more mass by the end of the century than earlier studies predicted. Photo: Julia Hager The more clearly a goal is defined, the more effectively it can be achieved. Of course, it must be concrete, comprehensible and...