Arctic sea ice concentration
The sea...
Carin Ashjian, a WHOI biologist, has been studying zooplankton aboard a German icebreaker attached to an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean. Now, she's experiencing an additional two months on the ship, as another team of scientists go through a period of quarantining before she can be replaced.SERDAR SAKINAN
Ecologists have...
This week: The MOSAiC ice floe is approaching the end of its life cycle. Also, check out some of our favorite new MOSAiC multimedia releases. And, this week's MOSAiC Virtual Summer Camp activity: Make your own barometer! Photo credit: Markus Rex, AWI
Scientists from the University of Colorado measure how fast the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane move between the atmosphere and the ocean, on Nov. 20, 2019. Photographer: Esther Horvath/Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Researchers haul their equipment to their field sites through snow blown by harsh winds. One researcher, a polar bear guard, carries a rifle on his back in case of an emergency. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / Delphin Rouché
In the early 1900s, Ernest Shackleton...
Ice is broken up by the passing of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska in 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
If one...