Hello Guest: login - register

SciencePoles news

Recent Polar Science and Climate Change news are featured here. Our news RSS feed will inform you when news are published on this website.

  • Study Shows Hungry Polar Bears a Threat to Barnacle Geese in Svalbard

    23.08.2010

    Having just returned from a Svalbard expedition, a Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) scientists confirmed that stranded polar bears are devastating breeding barnacle goose populations in the summer months while looking for food. According to their research, as the Arctic sea ice diminishes, polar bears, especially on the west coast…

  • AWI’s Polar 5 Aircraft Measures Arctic Sea Ice Thickness North of Greenland

    23.08.2010

    Scientists are worried as the sea ice over the Arctic Ocean reaches its annual minimum in September. While forecasts suggest that the extent is unlikely to hit another all-time low, sea ice physicists at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) are concerned about the long-term equilibrium in the Arctic Ocean. In…

  • Researchers Find Possible Answer to Antarctic Paradox

    17.08.2010

    Although the sea ice extent has been consistently receding in the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice has seen a slight increase in the past few decades. In a paper published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology…

  • Rocks from Canadian Arctic Offer New Perspective on Primitive Earth

    12.08.2010

    A new discovery made in the Canadian Arctic could offer scientists a fresh perspective on the Earth’s ancient history. According to a paper published in the journal Nature, geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island scientists may have found an untouched part of the Earth's early mantle that…

  • New Ice Island Claves off of Petermann Glacier in Greenland

    10.08.2010

    On August 5th, Petermann Glacier, which terminates on the coast of West Greenland, lost about one-quarter of its ice-shelf, producing a 70 kilometre-long iceberg. The glacier is one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland for which its extremity terminates in floating ice shelves, connecting the Greenland Ice Sheet…

 <  1 2 3 4 5 >  Last »

Latest Pictures

  • An elder preparing country food her family has brought her. Inuit who have a hunter in the family have much better food security.
  • Preparing country food to share at the Tukisgiavarik drop-in centre.
  • The community centres are based on Inuit values, which put emphasis on taking care of others in their community. Inuit come to the centres not only to get food, but also to converse with other Inuit and feel a part of their culture.
  • Caribou in the Canadian Arctic, a traditional source of protien for the Inuit. Climate change is changing the natural distribution areas of animals and changing ice conditions, making it more and more difficult for hunters to get traditional country food.
  • With fewer and fewer hunters in the Candian Arctic and a transition to a mixed economy, many Inuit are increasingly becoming dependant on store-bought food.
  • Food that has to be shipped to the Arctic from elsewhere can be three times as expensive compared to Southern Canada. Traditional Inuit country foods sold in stores are often the most expensive products.

All picture galleries

Featured lately

Dr Mark Drinkwater

Mark Drinkwater on CryoSat-2 and its Mission

With the successful launch of CryoSat-2 on 8th April 2010, the European Space Agency (ESA)…

Other websites

We run 3 other websites covering various aspects of polar science and climate change :

Support Us

Sponsorships & Donations

All donations to the IPF are tax deductible.

Donations can be made by various means, depending if they are made by a company or by individuals.

Support Us

Shop online

Shop online

Browse our products

Some of our educational products can be purchased online (CD-ROMs, comic strips).

We also have T-shirts, caps and other products of the like.

Keep in Touch

RSS Feeds

Subscribe to our RSS feeds to be warned in real time when the website is updated.