Passage of the Marion Dufresne II carrying, for example, the logistics of the French Polar Institute for the study of penguins in the colony of Marin Bay, on Possession Island of the Crozet Archipelago. Image: Camille Lin Penguins are suspected of using the...
Fin whales are the second largest baleen whales. Like other marine mammals, they are sentinels of the current environmental changes. Photo: Julia Hager Fin whales are regularly observed off Svalbard, especially during the summer months. However, the rapid warming of...
Bowhead whales prefer proximity to sea ice and are the only baleen whales that live year-round in Arctic and subarctic waters. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland whales are slowly recovering after the end of commercial whaling. There are now about 25,000 of them in the...
Northern elephant seals are the largest true seals in the Northern Hemisphere. Females arrive at their breeding site after 240 days at sea to give birth to their young, which they nurse for only three weeks before returning to sea. Photo: Jerry Kirkland via Wikipedia...
