Jacques Bazin, ice pilot with the French Navy: “Navigating in ice is like playing billiards with 150,000 banks, where you have to anticipate and detect passages.” Image: Virgil Decourteille / French Polar Institute The French Navy’s Hydrographic and...
Classified as vulnerable, the polar bear is suffering the effects of global warming head-on. The sea ice, on which it depends for food, is shrinking as sea water temperatures increase. Image: Michael Wenger Greenland’s polar bear populations have been retreating...
Cover of the book À bord du Polarstern published in French by Delachaux et Niestlé (there is currently no english version). Image: Katharina Weiss-Tuider / Christian Schneider / Delachaux et Niestlé A book about a major scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean, a...
Julienne Stroeve is a polar climatologist who works in particular on ice and snow modelling. Picture: Michael Wenger The first day of the One Planet – Polar Summit ended with informal discussions yesterday after 10pm alongside the animals in the Muséum...
After the Arctic, the Antarctic show signs of weakness in the face of global warming. Image : Julia Hager Image : Julia Hager A foundation to fund research projects of excellence in the cryosphere will be launched this evening in Paris in the hope of saving the poles....