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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.
Léa Zinsli
Glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur crossed Antarctica by kite-ski, while collecting geophysical data with ground-penetrating radars.
What lies beneath the kilometers-thick ice of Antarctica? If the ice sheet were completely removed, it would not reveal a monotonous block of rock, but rather an astonishingly diverse landscape.
Marcel Schütz
New Zealand’s Ambassador to Switzerland, Craig Hawke, handed over the Memorandum of Arrangement between Antarctica New Zealand and the Swiss Polar Institute
