Julienne Stroeve is a polar climatologist who works in particular on ice and snow modelling. Picture: Michael Wenger The first day of the One Planet – Polar Summit ended with informal discussions yesterday after 10pm alongside the animals in the Muséum...
Buoys sensitive to temperature, depth and sound, and able of detecting the presence of zooplankton 50 metres below the surface of the ice, were installed in the Central Arctic Ocean in 2020 during the MOSAiC expedition. Image: Folke Mehrtens The results of a study...
Belugas are among those whales whose tissues were analysed for microplastics in the study. The research team found plastic particles in the blubber, in the fat pad of the lower jaw and in the lungs of the four animals examined. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) Microplastics...
Mike Keen will probably have to weave his way through the numerous icebergs and boulders in the waters off Ilulissat (Photo: Julia Hager) Englishman Mike Keen has been paddling his kayak along the coast of western Greenland since the end of April. He is driven by a...
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, musicians have used the acoustic recordings provided by AWI and HIFMB to create pieces of music of enchanting beauty and completely in the spirit of polar nature and release them on an album. Video: Citiesandmemories.com Sounds help...