The town of Circle, located on the banks of the Yukon River, saw flooding begin on 13 May, when water levels rose three metres in the span of 30 minutes. Blocks of ice, released during the break-up, clustered together, creating dams that caused the river to overflow...
In a new book that makes us live the tension of the fieldwork, the motivating charge of the meetings, we have the exciting feeling to be a glaciologist for the time of a reading and to live behind the scenes the adventure of Heïdi Sevestre, with whom we cultivate...
Claude Lorius was one of the most famous French polar explorers (here in Antarctica in 2008) and, thanks to a glass of whisky with ice, came up with the idea of using glass bubbles in ice to study atmospheric gases from times past. In doing so, he laid an important...
Deployment of a scientific operation in the Eurasian Arctic from the sides of the German oceanographic vessel Polarstern. Image : Céline Heuzé The mysteries of the deep water race in the Arctic are difficult to unravel because of climate change and lack of data....
At first glance, a pristine Arctic landscape in Svalbard. But trapped in the snow and ice below lie numerous residues of our existence in the form of pollutants, transported by air masses. Image: Michael Wenger For some time now, an abbreviation has been making...
