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)...
Arctic krill (Thysanoessa inermis) is an important component of the diet of many larger animals in the Arctic Ocean, such as seals and whales. Photo: Dr. Russell R. Hopcroft, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, CC BY-SA 3.0 In almost all...
Staff observe the long-awaited sunlight on the roof of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on September 23, 2021, as they now enter the six-month daylight period. (Photo: Lisa Minelli-Endlich) While last summer the Northern hemisphere had experienced record high...
