Cruise ships in Antarctica represent a non-negligible scientific platform for monitoring bird communities, according to British and Norwegian scientists who experimented with this mode of observation between 2019 and 2020. On September 18, a study published in...
Jimmy Pahun (right in the image), French Brittany’s MP and member of the Arctic, Antarctic and French Southern and Antarctic Lands working group of the National Assembly, joined the Greenlandia expedition led by Vincent Hilaire, in Ittoqqortoormiit. Image: Yann...
Southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) are large predators, weighing between 3 and 5 kg. Image: Lucas Krüger Like the albatross, the giant petrel could be used to monitor fisheries in the Antarctic. Opportunistic, its home range allows it to cover a vast...
It’s not the Arctic, but Brazil has been present in Antarctica for 40 years and feels that the time has come to look north. Image: Marinha do Brasil Brazil is making progress on polar issues and its deployment capability. For the first time, it has published a...
Estimating the amount of sea ice is limited by its complex composition. Image : Heiner Kubny Researchers have just developed a new method for studying the extent of pack ice, using fiber optic lines – an ingenious idea that uses accessible technology in an...
