Well researched on the surface, but still full of unanswered questions underwater: these are the Antarctic coastal regions. New studies are now providing some relief. Picture: Michael Wenger The polar retrospective picks up on events of the past week related to the...
Its surface area could contain three times New York City. The A23a iceberg recently began drifting north of the peninsula. Image: Copernicus-Sentinel-1 After more than 30 years of immobility, the A23a iceberg is back on track. Driven by winds and currents, it drifts...
The new ice shelf-ocean model estimates the shape of cavities beneath ice shelves to improve modelling of ocean-ice interactions that cause melting beneath the ice shelf. Photo: Pete Harmsen A new Antarctic ice shelf-ocean model is revolutionizing predictions of...
Geneviève Pons is Director and Vice-President of the Europe Jacques Delors institute and co-chair of Antarctica 2020. Jérôme Chappellaz is glaciologist at CNRS, French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the former Director of the French Polar...
One Planet – Polar Summit has opened Wednesday in Paris. Scientists and researchers from forty countries around the world are gathering in the French capital for the first international summit dedicated to the cryosphere. Glaciers and poles are under great pressure...
