The IceNode prototype during its first mission in 2022 under the ice in Lake Superior, Michigan. Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech A fleet of autonomous robots will soon begin recording key parameters beneath Antarctic ice shelves to improve understanding of melting processes...
Fur seals and elephant seals share the Southern Ocean using very different hunting tactics. To find out more, read this article in Polar Journal AG. Image : Christophe Guinet By Lilian Dove, Brown University A surprising technique has helped scientists observe how...
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...
Due to the massive ice loss in the polar regions, the mass shifts on the Earth’s surface are so great that the Earth’s rotation is slowing down. Photo: Julia Hager The redistribution of mass due to melting ice sheets, ice shelves and glaciers has an...
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...
