Cryosphere: “parts of the earth’s surface where water exists as ice” Cambridge dictionary definition. Image: Julia Hager The French Polar Strategy, drafted two years ago by the French Ambassador for the Poles and Oceans, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor...
The harbor seal is one of the seals benefitting from the EU ban on seal products. The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources estimated there to be around 640,000 individuals worldwide in 2009. It lives mostly in subarctic waters and is not abundant in Greenland....
Balloon preparation in Esrange, Sweden, for the MAGIC mission led by Cyril Crevoisier and Caroline Bès in 2021. Image: Camille Lin An international team of physicists and balloonists flew a helium-filled aerial vessel between Sweden and Canada to study the atmosphere...
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 age of the oldest toothfish specimen in Australian naturalist collections has been estimated at around sixty years. Image: Christophe Delpont / TAAF The project to extend the marine park of the Australian archipelago closest to Antarctica has just been opened to...
