Portal Point on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Julia Hager Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are increasingly being...
Arctic seabirds such as Brunnich’s guillemots spend much of their lives on the open sea, even part of the time rearing their young. They are excellent divers and also have water-repellent plumage and a thick layer of blubber for insulation, like many of their...
Monsoon rains in India repeatedly claim dozens of lives and leave great devastation in their wake. (Photo: Dasarath Deka) In a study conducted by India’s National Center for Polar and Ocean Research, scientists have found that the decline in the extent of sea...