Recently, I was invited to present a series of lectures on biogeography and biodiversity aboard a small expedition ship, where I was responsible for my own educational program. This time, I decided to take a bold step and introduce a topic that wouldn’t typically find its way into an expedition cruise’s edutainment schedule. Inspired by IanContinue reading “The Lawless Ocean and What It Tells Us About Ourselves”
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A Worrying Sight: The North Pole Without Ice
How do you imagine the North Pole? Well, this is how it looked on 1st August 2024, when the Le Commandant Charcot arrived there. No ice—just open water stretching for miles and miles around the pole. Sea ice is always drifting, so conditions can change with ice moving in from the south. However, this imageContinue reading “A Worrying Sight: The North Pole Without Ice”
Glimpses of Central Arctic Ocean during hottest summer on record
The vast expanses of multiyear sea ice in the Central Arctic Ocean form one of the world’s most magnificent landscapes (or better say, seascapes). Yet, it remains one of the most underrated and often overlooked landscapes. How frequently do we encounter it in the media or in art? Unfortunately, it’s also one of the mostContinue reading “Glimpses of Central Arctic Ocean during hottest summer on record”
