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...
Landscape of the Alaskan lowlands north of the Brooks Range. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A study lifts the veil on the evolutionary origins of the tundra, a vast Arctic biome shaped by falling temperatures and rising grounds. Grasslands dotted with dwarf...
The Skhul V cranium from Israel is estimated to be between 80,000 and 100,000 years old. Residents of the Arabian Peninsula at that time may have been the first to carry genome fragments seen in Inuit populations today (Photo: Wapondaponda) Greenland’s indigenous...
This is Chionodraco hamatus which belongs to the group of ice fish, the Notothenioides. A group of animals that make up 95% of the biomass of Antarctica between 0 and 3,000 meters depth. Image: Marrabbio2 / Wikimedia The ice fish Chionodraco hamatus has acquired the...