Ice shelves form a barrier for the glaciers behind them. Climate change with rising temperatures is making many of them more unstable. Photo: Michael Wenger In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf, an area of 3,250 square kilometers, collapsed on the Antarctic Peninsula. In...
Taking in vast amounts of water and krill at once, then squeezing the water out of their closed mouths and eating the animals hanging in their baleen is the recipe for success of baleen whales like humpback or blue whales. But why don’t all whale species do...
The majority of tourists visit Antarctica by ship and mainly on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Dutch shipping company “Oceanwide Expeditions” has been sailing in polar regions with ‘small’ ships for over 30 years. (Image: Oceanwide Expeditions)...
At first glance, a pristine Arctic landscape in Svalbard. But trapped in the snow and ice below lie numerous residues of our existence in the form of pollutants, transported by air masses. Image: Michael Wenger For some time now, an abbreviation has been making...
Polar bear plunge: Polar bears are fully equipped to face icy waters. A thick fur made up of two layers : one to keep the body warm and another of hollow hairs to repel water and stay dry. And under the skin, a thick layer of fat to protect the internal organs…...
