Where should the boot liners go? (Photo: Jochen Bettzieche / SLF) Matthias Jaggi, a technician at the Swiss WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, will spend the festive season in Antarctica. The luggage for his long expedition is travelling ahead of him....
Sea ice extent in the Arctic is always lowest at the end of summer in September. The graph shows the development of the minimum expansion from 1979 to 2022. Graphics: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Without the current positive phase...
Determining the mutation rate of cetaceans is not an easy task, as it is difficult to locate and sample them. Photo: Julia Hager Before commercial whaling began, the number of humpback whales in the North Atlantic was apparently 86 percent lower than previously...
Gentoo penguins on King George Island primarily feed their chicks Antarctic krill, which also ingest microplastics with their food. Thus, the particles are passed on from the base of the food web to the large predators at the top. Photo: Julia Hager Not even four...
The polar regions are an important area for China’s rise to global power. Indeed, it has has long-term strategic and economic interests in the Arctic. These are some of the reasons for its activities there. (Photo: CHINARE) The Arctic Ocean has long been at the...
