The grounds of the Arctic and in large parts of the high alpine areas consists of permafrost. A distinction is made between different stages, which are frozen for different lengths of time. Due to climate change in the Arctic, these soils are thawing more and longer,...
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is formed by many individual glaciers. Some of them extend into the Southern Ocean, forming massive ice shelves. Photo: Michael Wenger Scientists still struggle to predict how much sea levels will rise in the future as a result of global...
The areas of the Antarctic Peninsula are among the fastest warming regions in the southern hemisphere. In the process, the warm water flows deep down to the continent, warming the habitat of many species such as the unique fish fauna. Picture: Michael Wenger The...
Satellite image of Severnaya Zemlya. The archipelago is located in the Russian High Arctic at about 80 degrees north latitude and covers about 37,000 square kilometers. Photo: Landsat 8, NASA The news about massive ice losses in the Arctic does not stop. After...
Last week, more than 8 billion tonnes melted from Greenland’s ice sheet on each of two consecutive days. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland’s ice sheet is melting rapidly again this year – on Wednesday and Thursday of last week alone, a total of nearly 17...
