The minicipality of Paris has dedicated this building to climate, science and youth since September 2021 and will make it available to polar scientists for three days next May. Image: Climate Academy Researchers who are leading or starting a career in science and who...
Frozen landscape of the Disko Bay in Ilulissat produced by the calving of the glacier Jakobshavn Isbræ. Image: Michael Wenger An event in the life of glaciers that had never been observed before has just surprised glaciologists. A lake resting on the ice cap drained...
Bowhead whales prefer proximity to sea ice and are the only baleen whales that live year-round in Arctic and subarctic waters. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland whales are slowly recovering after the end of commercial whaling. There are now about 25,000 of them in the...
Gentoo penguin in front of reddish snow at “Vernadsky” station. (Photo: Sergei Glotov) Around the Ukrainian Antarctic station “Akademik Vernadsky” the snow has turned a reddish color. The reason for the color change was the mass accumulation of...
Antarctica seems quite isolated from the rest of the world by the Circumpolar Current and the steady westerly winds that circle around it. That this is not the case is confirmed once again by a study showing that the ENSO phenomenon originating in the tropical Pacific...
