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Marcel Schütz
In the Arctic Ocean, survival is determined not only by ice cover, but also by light.
Heiner Kubny
The rapid loss of ice masses is not only transforming Greenland’s cryosphere, it is increasingly affecting the island’s geodynamics.
Rosamaria Kubny
Climate change is hitting the Arctic particularly hard. Around the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the annually ice-free period in the Barents Sea has lengthened dramatically since the 1980s.
Permafrost—permanently frozen ground in the coldest regions of the Earth—has stored large amounts of organic carbon from dead plants and animals for thousands of years.
While large parts of Scandinavia, northwestern Russia, and Siberia experienced their coldest January in many years, the High North revealed a very different side.
An extraordinary heat event in 2003 profoundly and permanently changed the marine ecosystem off Greenland.
An adult male polar bear can lose or gain up to 60 kilograms of body weight within just a few days - an amount equivalent to the body weight of an average adult human.
There is good news from environmental research: the pollution of the oceans with so-called PFAS chemicals appears to be declining.
With the end of the last Ice Age, not only did glaciers and ice sheets melt away. One of the most impressive animal communities in Earth’s history also vanished.
Stephan Fürnrohr
The fleeting beauty of Arctic ice: the impressive large-format photo book "On the Essence of Ice" tells the story of the life cycle of ice through epic visual sequences.
