International media spotlighted Finland last week, covering the global rise of sauna culture, Sámi efforts to certify ethical ...

German naval conglomerate Thyssenkrupp and Finland-based consulting and engineering company Elomatic have signed a design and engineering contract to support the development of a new Polarstern ...

As one of the environmentally friendliest icebreakers in the world, the new Polarstern will be an ambassador of innovative technological solutions and materials to promote sustainability ...

The Polarstern expedition, TRANSSIZ, was initiated by the ART (Arctic in Rapid Transition) network and includes 53 researchers from 11 countries Research icebreaker Polarstern left its home port ...

The Polarstern icebreaker returned to port in Germany on Wednesday, August 17 after spending 51 days conducting research in the Arctic amid record heatwaves this summer. The researchers were ...

Researchers board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Polarstern icebreaker have returned from the “epicenter of climate change” with a trove of new data and some sobering news. Sue Bird Throws ...

This article is also available as a pdf version. Scientists often take images from their work – whether they produce medical scans, microscopic captures, or computer screenshots of tricky pieces ...

Weather instruments installed on the Polarstern icebreaker recorded a huge jump in the near-surface air temperature, from -30.8°C to almost 0°C, between 14 and 17 April 2020. This was a record ...

The legendary research vessel and icebreaker Polarstern has left Germany and is heading to the Arctic to assess the impact of climate change amid a record heatwave in Europe. Over the last 40 ...

the two researchers from the University of Basel give insights into their work and life on board the German icebreaker “Polarstern” that is sailing in the Southern Ocean. The scientists are ...

Ultimately, the new icebreaker will completely replace the Polarstern. The Europe-wide procurement procedure with a competitive bidding (“EU-weites Ausschreibungsverfahren mit vorgeschaltetem ...

A team of researchers spent a year on the icebreaker Polarstern, drifting with the sea ice in the Arctic to better understand changes taking place at the epicentre of the climate crisis. The ...