Photo: Michael Wegner Danielle Udy, University of Tasmania; Anthony Kiem, University of Newcastle; Neil Holbrook, University of Tasmania; Nerilie Abram, Australian National University, and Tessa Vance, University of Tasmania Australia has a long history of bushfires....
Showa Station is a Japanese Antarctic research station established in 1957 on Ongul Island off the coast of Queen Maud Land. The sea around the station is usually covered with ice all year round (Photo: NIPR) The sea around Japan’s Showa Station is covered with sea...
Fin whales are increasingly staying in the Arctic year-round (Photo: Julia Hager) A Norwegian research team used two submarine fibre-optic cables to record the sounds of fin whales, following them along the west coast of Svalbard for hours in near real time Tracking...
Antarctic sea ice encircles the continent in winter and retreats almost completely in summer (Photo: Julia Hager) While global warming in the Arctic is mainly causing a decline in sea ice, in the Antarctic it is mainly the ice shelves that are losing mass. A review...
The worm-like copepods that often sit on the cornea of the eyes are not the only parasites that infest Greenland sharks (Photo: Hemming1952 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Greenland sharks roam the waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic for centuries. In the...