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Dani Arnold achieves the first winter ascent of the Tarantellen in Svalbard
https://t.co/lvU2Mn7ny3

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Deep-Sea Mining in the Arctic: Opportunity for the Energy Transition or Threat to a Fragile Ecosystem?
https://t.co/1gt1xVGjNE

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Russia and China will jointly train specialists for navigation in polar waters, according to a memorandum signed in Hangzhou

Read the full story here: https://t.co/p80sCTRdkZ

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Polar Journal is back!
With fresh energy and a new team, we’re bringing you fascinating stories, behind-the-scenes insights, and all the latest from the world’s polar regions.
https://t.co/JrY35fL0KY

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In Greenland’s Disko Bay, subglacial meltwater lifts nutrient-rich deep water to the surface, driving a summer phytoplankton bloom. That’s good for the food web, but the climate effect is modest: the modeled CO₂ uptake rises by only about 3%.

https://t.co/iSZI8WU37W

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Time, a changing climate, and humans are the connecting factors of our latest Polar Retrospective. We thereby take you to islands in the Southern Ocean and into the Arctic region, just as we love doing, bringing you stories from both sides of the planet
https://t.co/NpV9O3xWB8

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The 1,000-kilometre-long Tintina Fault runs less than 20 kilometres from Dawson City. New research by the University of Victoria shows it has produced major quakes in the geologically recent past and may be building toward another exceeding magnitude 7.5.

https://t.co/wtJ8WzkfFQ

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When traveling to the UK, you need an ETA. But what’s new is that if you travel to the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia, you also need an ETA. But getting one is currently difficult as the system is not operational yet
#Antarctic #tourism
https://t.co/MelsNV3n90

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New, new, new, that’s our take from last week’s information coming from Antarctica and the Arctic. But not all of them were good news, unfortunately. Especially from Svalbard, we got some worrying news about Arctic foxes.
#Arctic #fox #map #inuit
https://t.co/6BzntvOeCj

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@HKarl94 Several national Antarctic programs have changed and strengthened their regulations concerning misbehaviour, harrassment and assaults. Among them Australia, USA, Chile, and the UK. But it's clear that enforcing those can only work if the people who have experienced this speak out

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It’s all in the bones, at least when you are looking into the past of Arctic animals and scientists of the University of Bournemouth and University of Oslo were particularly lucky in finding 75,000 years old bones in a Norwegian Arctic cave
#DNA #climate
https://t.co/ZQWEyWybod

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Arctic security is at the top of priority lists of several European nations. But while it seems clear for Scandinavian countries, we also explore the reasons for countries like Germany and France to invest more into their Arctic security strategies.
https://t.co/vkmozzJY9t

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Male leopard seals spend hours each day calling underwater during breeding season. A new study shows their vocal patterns are simple, repetitive and remarkably similar to human nursery rhymes.

https://t.co/eNfTHku4lY

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🌊 For nearly 30 years, Australia’s Southern Ocean Time Series has delivered key climate and ocean data — and it's more vital than ever as global monitoring efforts face setbacks.

Originally via The Conversation.

https://t.co/f2PMey6HZU

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While it seems easy to create a MPA in polar regions on a map, the reality is more complex. Two new studies that seem to contradict each other, are actually showing which strategies future polar MPAs should take.
https://t.co/0WX0n48g4C
#conservation #Arctic #Antarctica

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Here's two more visualizations of the production-ready #PolarClass4 Multi-Purpose #Icebreaker (MPI) that our consortium with @BollingerShip, @RMCFinland and @Seaspan is now offering to the @USCG with delivery within 36 months of contract award.

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Looking back, February 2025 was too mild in many regions of the Northern hemisphere, especially on Svalbard. Here, scientists found areas that looked like springtime rather than winter. Read more about it here
👉 https://t.co/4rFoS20vu5
#climate #svalbard #warming #science

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"@BollingerShip, @RMCFinland, @Seaspan and Aker Arctic today announced the formation of a strategic partnership to deliver the lowest-risk, fastest delivery solution of best-in-class Arctic Security Cutters (ASC) to the @USCG"

https://t.co/A5OQ0st2de

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The strongest earthquake recorded this year so far (8.8) has hit the east coast of Kamchatka and authorities in several countries have issued tsunami warnings that reach from Alaska even to East Antarctica.
https://t.co/XCvohGQ3eE
#Alaska #earthquake #tsunami

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The end of Scott and his comrades on their ill-fated expedition to the South Pole is still debated: did the blizzard occur or not? A new study sheds light on this long debate in favour of Scott.
#Antarctica #history #expedition #weather
https://t.co/mGimVFc6tY