Krusenstern Lagoon in Cape Krusenstern National Monument is one of many lagoons along the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. Photo: Marguerite Tibbles For more than 4,000 years, the Iñupiat people have lived on the coast of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska, relying on wild...
The surface of Arctic sea ice is very heterogeneous and thus also exhibits variable reflectivity. Microglass beads are supposed to increase reflectivity and prevent melting, according to a 2018 study, but they do the opposite. Photo: Julia Hager The worldwide, drastic...
These clouds west of Spitsbergen do not bode well. Unusually heavy rainfall has already caused landslides in Longyearbyen. Photo: Michael Wenger The Svalbard archipelago has been repeatedly hit by extreme rainfall in the last decades, which is very untypical for the...
The Milne Fjord Epishelf lake lies hidden under a layer of ice and floats on the denser and heavier waters of the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Denis Sarrazin, Center for Northern Studies In the far north of Canada, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, in the Milne Fjord...
The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is currently undergoing dramatic changes. In 2019, two interdisciplinary research teams deployed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from the U.S. research icebreaker R.V. Nathaniel B. Palmer deployed at the ice edge to study...