Svalbard's special northern lights SHARE YOUR SCIENCE: Svalbard's unique geographical position gives the opportunity to observe both the green night time aurora and the redder daytime aurora. But what is the difference?
Hot topics from the cold More than 75% of the Earth’s surface is occupied by cold environments. Cold environments are hot spots for the organisms living there.
Care for you core! We have recently drilled 34 ice cores from the sea ice. We expected to find very little life inside the ice, but we were proven wrong.
Do the animals at the bottom of the ocean know it’s dark season? Do the animals at the bottom of the ocean, that might never have been exposed to sunlight, notice the dark season as we do? It seems logical to assume that the polar night should go by completely unnoticed by them. But it doesn’t.
Blowing in the Arctic wind Imaging driving with an open cabriolet car at 90km/h inside a gigantic freezer box at -25 degrees C with all windows opens. This does not sound comfortable and most people would not be part of such a situation voluntarily. But this has been the conditions we had been facing for the first days of our Q4 expedition.
The gentle drone Not all un-manned aircraft are prowling military predators. Drones can also be deployed to chart ice fields and pollution, or locate people who’ve fallen overboard from ships.
Rudolph and relatives have UV vision The reindeer of the high north can see light that is invisible to our eyes. This is a big advantage in a snow white landscape.
Brains like glaciers When a glacier calves into the ocean scientists see the same patterns that are found in brain impulses and other complex, unpredictable systems.
Yo-Yo dieter with eiderdown The common eider is a yo-yo dieter. This can make the sea duck vulnerable to environmental toxins and disease both on the Svalbard Archipelago and along the Norwegian coast.