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A new overview provides an even more accurate picture of polar sea ice in the past 30 years

The new information makes it possible to see what has happened to sea ice locally along the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland.

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.

In the Arctic Ocean and on the shoulders of giants

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.

Unique Challenges at the start of an Arctic winter Expedition

Hard disks full of data despite ice, darkness and freezing temperatures

Where are we?

The heat

Night watch

There is something magical about working night shifts on a boat. And magically tiring.

Tales from the deep

What IS this mooring business?

Searching in the dark

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.