During the polar night of 2022, the Kongsfjord on Svalbard was teeming with jellyfish and cnidarians such as the Aglantha digitale. Photo: Charlotte Havermans, AWI With the help of so-called DNA metabarcoding, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)...
Between glacier retreat, disappearance of the winter ice pack and upwelling of warm water, the coasts of Svalbard are feeling the full force of global change. Picture: Michael Wenger The underwater ecosystem of the Svalbard archipelago has changed in appearance over...
Kongsbreen (King’s Glacier) is a two-part ice tongue at the far end of Kongsfjorden in western Svalbard. Further west lies Svalbard’s northernmost settlement, Ny Ålesund on the southern side of the fjord and the tourist-popular island of Blomstrandhalvøya...