French Antarctic base Dumont d’Urville, Terre Adélie. Image: Thibaut Vergoz / French Polar Institute Last summer, the scientific stations operating on the east coast of Antarctica, both French and Australian, passed the cross inspection test, an Antarctic Treaty...
Balloon preparation in Esrange, Sweden, for the MAGIC mission led by Cyril Crevoisier and Caroline Bès in 2021. Image: Camille Lin An international team of physicists and balloonists flew a helium-filled aerial vessel between Sweden and Canada to study the atmosphere...
For five years now, we at Polar Journal AG have been providing lots of interesting facts about the Arctic and Antarctic, inspiring not only the general public but also a wide range of polar stakeholders. (Photo: Michael Wenger, edited by Julia Hager) The Polar...
Based on a polar bear picture taken in Wrangel by François Bernard – Sebastião Salgado’s guide in Greenland – Sara Bran has produced Captif. Picture: Camille Lin Sara Bran, a lace-maker on gold, is off to Greenland this summer to enrich her artistic...
El Niño and La Niña cannot be used to predict the state of the ice; that depends on their intensity, and each phenomenon is unique. Image: Michael Wenger The winter of 2023 saw the lowest ever sea ice extent around Antarctica. A drop in sea ice area compared with...