Start of the work of the expedition “Nordpol-41” on the ice floe. (Photo: AARI) After a construction period of 3½ years at the Admirality shipyard in St. Petersburg, the “Severny Polyus” is in service in the Arctic for the first time. On...
One of the last big international expeditions to the Russian Arctic was the “Arctic Century” expedition led by the Swiss Polar Institute and GEOMAR in cooperation with the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. All scientific collaborations...
Emperor penguins are apex predators, almost at top of the food web. As such, they feed on smaller animals from lower levels of the food web, which in turn may have ingested microplastic particles and passed them on to the predators – a process called trophic...
Roy Price, Donato Giovannelli and Erlendur Bogason are ready to dive over the underwater chimney. Photo: Jacopo Pasotti Thinking of Iceland we imagine volcanoes, rain, open spaces where wind and vapours exhaled from a restless land makes it “like being on the Moon”....
A research team in Belize was tagging tiger sharks and was surprised to see a sleeper shark on the line. Photo: Devanshi Kasana Many species of sharks are still a mystery to scientists and rarely provide insight into their secret lives. Among them is certainly the...
