Tara Polar Station is expected to be ready by early 2025. Fully prepared for the Oceans Summit to be held on June 7 in Nice, France. Image: François Dourlen / Tara Ocean Foundation The Fondation Tara Océan’s unique, mobile, drifting polar station was no more...
The Norwegian Troll station is located in the Gjelsvik mountains in the Dronning Maud Land. Image: Trine Lise Sviggum Helgerud / Norsk Polarinstitutt Near mountain ranges, multi-millennia-old ice resurgences are home to active ecosystems never before recorded. The...
Based on a polar bear picture taken in Wrangel by François Bernard – Sebastião Salgado’s guide in Greenland – Sara Bran has produced Captif. Picture: Camille Lin Sara Bran, a lace-maker on gold, is off to Greenland this summer to enrich her artistic...
Below a global temperature rise of 2°C, the glaciers of the Weddell Sea will not be irreversibly affected by warm water currents by the end of the century. Foresight. In the southern Weddell Sea, the world’s second largest ice shelf will remain protected from...
Ready to face the Arctic cold. Made up of two layers, one of which consists of hollow hairs, combined with a black skin and a good layer of fat, polar bear fur offers optimum protection against the cold. So much so that the bears sometimes get too warm and have to...
