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EU-PolarNet: Towards closer collaboration on polar research in Europe

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:44:00 +0200

Alfred Wegener Institute director Professor Karin Lochte talks about EU-PolarNet, an EU-funded initiative that aims to foster greater synergies between different European polar research institutions.

Ice shelf channels: important features science is only starting to understand

Tue, 19 May 2015 16:33:00 +0200

Do channels that form in ice shelves make them more or less stable? ULB Glaciologist Reinhard Drews tells us what scientists have been learning about these fascinating features.

Ice rises: key archives of de-glaciation history

Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:53:00 +0200

Flowing ice can create some interesting features in Antarctica - features like ice rises. As Reinhard Drews from the Université Libre de Bruxelles explains, you can learn a lot from these features by studying them.

The giant circular scar on the King Baudouin Ice Shelf: a glaciologist’s perspective

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:24:00 +0100

Glaciologist Jan Lenaerts talks about the mysterious 2 km-wide scar on the King Baudouin Ice Shelf. He and other glaciologists believe it is likely an ice doline.

Taking a second look at the circular scar on the King Baudoin Ice Shelf

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:08:00 +0100

Graeme Eagles from AWI talks about media coverage of the circular feature on the King Baudouin Ice Shelf his colleagues discovered and an alternate hypothesis for its origin.

A serendipitous find during an airborne geophysical survey

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:34:00 +0100

While researchers from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute were conducting an aerial survey to learn more about the geological history of Antarctica, they discovered an interesting feature in the King Baudouin Ice Shelf in East Antarctica

Studying how ice sheets and climate affect one another over time

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:27:00 +0100

Dr Heiko Goelzer, an ice sheet modeller from the Geography Department at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium, explains efforts he is involved in to improve projections of ice loss from the planet’s ice sheets

The notion of the “Arctic” is based on Canadian ideas, according to discourse analysis study

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:00:00 +0200

Taking a constructivist approach to discourse analysis, Professor Carina Keskitalo from Umeå University argues that the concept of "the Arctic” is primarily a Canadian invention.

Putting Antarctica’s ice mass loss into perspective

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:54:00 +0200

Professor Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds explains how advances in Earth observation have led to an ever-improving understanding of ice loss from Antarctica.

Climate change can lead to release of contaminants that pose risks to human health

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:56:00 +0200

As part of the ArcRisk project, Professor Arja Rautio from the University of Oulu in Finland has studied links between climate change and exposure to toxic contaminants in the food Arctic residents consume.