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...
Friederike Krüger is a teacher in Hannover and was one of only two teachers who could participate in the first leg of the MOSAiC expedition on board the “Akademik Fedorov”. Image: Mario Hoppmann “That’s quite complicated,” is a response I...
Around the stations, the ground is contaminated with fuels in various places. At Casey Station, it has been remediated using bacteria for 11 years. The mounds, called “biopiles,” must be turned regularly for this purpose. Photo: Sean McComish/AAD Australia...
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s “Endurance” was crushed by pack ice while attempting to reach the edge of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and sank in November 1915. The upcoming “Endurance22” expedition is to locate, investigate and film the wreck....
The icebreaker “Shirase” has arrived off the coast of East Ongul Island in Antarctica. (Photo: Institute of Polar Research) The Japanese icebreaker “Shirase” has reached Japan’s Antarctic research facility, Showa Station. The members of...
