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...
More frequent and more violent storms, less sea ice, ice shelves breaking apart, and Antarctic organisms under huge pressure: Antarctica’s future could look gloomy. But when and how that will really happen is subject of current research. (Photo: Michael Wenger)...
Polar bears can take whatever weather nature dishes out. But how will they fare in an Arctic where extremes occur more frequently (Photo: Michael Wenger) Frigid temperatures make the Arctic an extreme environment in and of itself. But a changing climate and a still...
Greenland includes ice, snow and rock. Nunataqs are mountain peaks that stick out of the ice. The Alps probably also looked similar during the last ice age. Photo: Christian Rixen, SLF An expedition around northern Greenland led SLF botanist Christian Rixen to the...
Summit Station is a National Science Foundation-funded year-round station at the highest point of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In addition to atmospheric research, projects for astronomy, astrophysics and meteorology are also carried out. The rains are the first ever...
