Survey above the former whaling station Grytviken. Photo: Dr. Pierre Tichit, CC-BY On South Georgia, invasive plants and invertebrates colonise the newly available habitats in front of the melting glaciers relatively quickly – which probably does not bode well...
Charlotta Mattsson hones her shooting skills. Photo: Christian Rixen, SLF SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists – and climate change. We reproduce here the article published on the SLF...
In winter, dog sleds are the best way to get around, along with snowmobiles. As dogs excrete their waste (front right), nutrients from the waste enter the soil and provide nourishment for plants and microorganisms. (Photo: Michael Wenger) One type of animal living on...
From left to right: Andreas Gygax, botanist, Charlotta Mattsson, master student at the University of Basel, and Christian Rixen, senior scientist at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. As they have just returned from Greenland, we will have to wait a little...
Researchers from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), the Agrophysical Research Institute and the Institute of Medical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences have managed to grow watermelons in Antarctica. (Photo: AARI) On the one hand,...