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A fortress of ice and snow

After only a few days of searching, experts from the MOSAiC expedition have now found a suitable ice floe, where they will set up the research camp for their…

Laser precision: NASA flights, satellite align over sea ice

“If you look at the height profiles from ICESat-2 and IceBridge, you can tell that they're almost the same,” said Ron Kwok, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Jet…

Less is more – Shedding genes for a new life in water

While whales and dolphins spend their entire life in the ocean, these air-breathing mammals actually evolved from terrestrial species. The transition from land…

Symbiosis as a tripartite relationship

Investigation of viral communities of sponges allows new insights into the mechanisms of symbiosis

2019 Arctic sea ice minimum tied for second lowest on record

The Arctic sea ice cap is an expanse of frozen seawater floating on top of the Arctic Ocean and neighboring seas. Every year, it expands and thickens during…

Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic

The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at the end of the melt season in September. Only circa 3.9 million square kilometres of the…

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