In February and March 2021, the research team took 17 water samples from the southern Weddell Sea to investigate the concentration of microplastics. Photo: Clara Leistenschneider The pollution of the Southern Ocean with microplastics has been significantly...
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...
The Argentine research station, Base Primavera, on the Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo: Shaun Brooks) By Shaun Brooks, CSIRO Scientific research in Antarctica has played a key role in many important discoveries of the past century. But it has also come at a considerable...
The different orca groups in the North Atlantic have very different preferences when it comes to diet. Their risk of taking in pollutants is strongly dependent on their preferred prey. Figure: Remili et al. 2023 Orcas are exposed to a variety of pollutants in their...
At present, the Australian Antarctic Division has three active stations on the continent and one on the sub-Antarctic island of Macquarie. Pictured here is Casey station (Photo: Peter Cummings, Australian Antarctic Program). A study conducted near an Australian...