The US icebreaker “Healy” was commissioned in 2000 and was the only operational icebreaking vessel until a few weeks ago. A fire in the engine room ended the current Arctic missions and forced the vessel back to its home port in Seattle. (Photo: NASA, Kathrin Hansen)...
Although geographically 85 kilometers apart in the Bering Strait and only 4 kilometers apart on the Diomede Islands (Little Diomede on the horizon, Ratmanova to the right), the USA and Russia are ideologically and politically worlds apart. China is now joining them as...
: 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...
Big problem, simple solution in the Antarctic: Since there is hardly any information on the size of the emperor penguin colonies, BAS relies on aerial photographs to count the animals in order to train an AI to evaluate satellite images later. Photo: Michael Wenger...
The McMurdo Station is the largest research and logistics station in Antarctica and is operated by the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) of the US government. (Photo: Elaine Hood, National Science Foundation) Author: William (Bill) Muntean, U.S. Department of...
