Ancestry of Arctic sled dogs
Updated: 6 Mar. 2019 For the last 15,000 years, humans and dogs traveled, hunted, and lived together. Dogs were brought to North America from Asian regions by the first colonizers.…
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15/02/2019
High Levels of Mercury found in Antarctic Krill confirm that Mercury is a global issue
Mercury is a toxic element for animals and its increasing concentration in the world’s ocean as been acknowledged as a global issue. Though the Southern Ocean presents overall high mercury levels,…
15/01/2019
Winter isolation in Antarctica and interpersonal relationships among station members
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…
15/12/2018
Conservation and tourism hand in hand: a case study of the Arctic Fox from Scandinavia
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…
15/08/2018
Astronomy meets Antarctica
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…
15/07/2018
Chemical properties of the venom of octopus species of the Southern Ocean
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…
15/05/2018
Increasing presence of killer whales in the Canadian Arctic
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,…
15/04/2018
The night dive of the emperor penguins
“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…
15/03/2018
Ocean colour, an essential climate variable
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…
15/01/2018
The use of Seabirds to reveal distribution of Cephalopods
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…
15/11/2017