Very recently, the media were flooded by the story of a polar scientist who stabbed a colleague at an Antarctic Station. The person who was stabbed had successively spoiled the…
Nowadays, interest in wildlife tourism has been growing very fast. The search for new and varied experiences from wildlife tourism has been expanding into new areas, new species and through…
Tests at the South Pole have shown that the Antarctic plateau offers outstanding sites for astronomical observations. The extremely cold temperatures lead to very low infrared backgrounds and atmospheric water vapor…
Studying the molecular biology of organisms is essential for the development of conservation strategies regarding species and the ecosystem itself. However, only understanding how different organisms interact among each other…
Updated: 2 Apr. 2019 Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Arctic are known to avoid ice, only migrating from North Atlantic waters up to the Arctic ocean in the summer,…
“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.”Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World The first description of…
Earth observation from space is a fundamental part of the second Copernicus revolution. During the first Copernicus revolution, Man has given up its egocentrism to assume he’s just an improbable…
Some groups of oceanic animals, such as cephalopods, are highly skiing to scientific nets. Occurring in big areas such the Southern Ocean, the task of discover their habitat is a…
Updated: 6 mar. 2019 Knowledge on the biology, ecology and population dynamics of marine species is fundamental to understand ecosystem functioning. Southern Ocean food webs are extremely dynamic as a…
The traditional vision portrayed Antarctica as a continent with low biodiversity and limited by a hostile environment. However, biodiversity studies over the last few years have shown that life in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is…