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Léa Zinsli
Arctic whales evolved in close connection with sea ice, but climate change may now be altering their environment faster than evolution can keep up.
Ice worms survive on glaciers through remarkable adaptations that keep their cells producing energy in conditions that slow most forms of life.
Heiner Kubny
On 18 July 2026, the air temperature dropped to minus 84.1 degrees Celsius – the lowest reading recorded at a weather station anywhere in the world since 2012.
The Swedish research icebreaker Oden is currently being fitted out in the port of Helsingborg for an international research mission to the Arctic Ocean.
For many in Greenland, climate change is not a distant concept but a daily reality, even if its causes are understood in different ways.
Rosamaria Kubny
Antarctica was long considered to be virtually free of pathogens. Today, however, a completely different picture is emerging.
Using six autonomous Argobuoys, Ukrainian scientists have carried out the first-ever year-round oceanographic study in the Bransfield Strait between the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands.
The Arctic fox changes its coat with the seasons, shifting from brown in summer to white in winter to stay camouflaged year round.
Marcel Schütz
An unusually intense summer of polar bear visits has put one of Svalbard’s key eider duck breeding areas under heavy pressure.
A bone discovered as far back as 1985 on the Antarctic Peninsula has now been officially identified as the first known dinosaur fossil ever found on the Antarctic continent.
