Wandering albatrosses are among the seabirds that breed on Bird Island, South Georgia, and undertake long migrations in search of food. Photo: Michael Wenger Food availability for seabirds, such as albatrosses, which breed on sub-Antarctic islands, may decline as the...
Les huit hybrides identifiés proviennent tous de la même famille, déjà connue des scientifiques. Une femelle ours polaire née en 1989 s’était accouplée avec deux grizzlis donnant naissance à quatre petits. L’un de ces rejetons s’est ensuite à son tour accouplé avec...
The Greek PhD-student Apostolos Tsiouvalas on the coast of Siorapaluk during his field work in Avanersuaq, Northwest Greenland where he interviewed locals to investigate how they had been affected by international law. Photo: Apostolos Tsiouvalas International law...
: It was not only the perennial topic of climate change that occupied the media last week when they looked towards the Arctic. The midnight sun, which will be at its zenith in a few weeks, also illuminated events in other areas. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The Polar...
UPDATE: Professor Olaf Eisen, glaciologist at the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), provided us with exciting background information on the emperor penguin colony in Atka Bay. He told Polar Journal in a phone call that the ice thickness of the Ekström ice shelf...
