Hundreds of thousands of baleen whales were killed in the 20th century. Here, the blue whale is slowly recovering in Antarctica. Image: Julia Hager Blue whales form a unique population around Antarctica and CCAMLR should minimise the human impact on the species around...
Jacques Bazin, ice pilot with the French Navy: “Navigating in ice is like playing billiards with 150,000 banks, where you have to anticipate and detect passages.” Image: Virgil Decourteille / French Polar Institute The French Navy’s Hydrographic and...
Departing from Spain last autumn, the Hespéridesis moored in the small bay opposite the Juan Carlos I station. Image: Ocean Networks Canada To monitor the melting of the Antarctic and its effects on the balance of the Southern Ocean, a Spanish-Canadian association has...
The summit of Mont Ross, a French glacier in the southern hemisphere, on the Kerguelen archipelago. Image: JF Cousin / Wikimedia Commons Next week in Paris, a coalition of countries will meet to discuss the disappearance of the cryosphere and its consequences for...
A lack of krill is thought to be the main reason for the decline in fur seals observed in the north of South Georgia. Researchers are concerned that this symptom could spread to the archipelago and the Southern Ocean. On October 15, the journal Global Change Biology...