An emperor penguin colony near the ice edge photographed during an aerial survey. Photo: Sara Labrousse High-resolution satellite images enabled an international research team to document the global population development of emperor penguins for the first time:...
Argentinian scientists found two dead skuas near the “Primavera” station on the Antarctic Peninsula. At the Spanish research station on Deception Island, it was confirmed that they were carriers of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. Photo: Michael Wenger...
A Chinese supertrawler fishing for krill in the Southern Ocean in the presence of whales. A practice that not only represents direct competition for food for whales, penguins and seals, but can also lead to fatal ship strikes. Photo: Screenshot Sea Shepherd Global...
Plastic pollution is omnipresent on many of Svalbard’s beaches. (Photo: Julia Hager) Along with climate change, environmental pollution is one of the most pressing problems in the Arctic and Antarctic. For some years now, research has increasingly focussed on...
Julienne Stroeve is a polar climatologist who works in particular on ice and snow modelling. Picture: Michael Wenger The first day of the One Planet – Polar Summit ended with informal discussions yesterday after 10pm alongside the animals in the Muséum...