Le #CNFRAA organise annuellement des Journées Scientifiques de la recherche en milieux polaires ayant pour objectif principal de présenter les projets et travaux menés par la recherche polaire française. !! Vive la Science et ceux qui la font !!
#JS21 Grenoble - Mai2025
#CNFRAA #sciencepolaire

Wordie wasn't always a bay... it was an ice shelf, today totally melted and almost forgotten

The Tara Polar Station, on the front line of Arctic atlantification | Polar Journal Oceanographer Benjamin Rabe plans to study the phenomenon of upwelling of warm water and nutrients already observed at the edges of the Arctic Ocean to see if it will extend towards the North Pole ove...

The Tara Polar Station, on the front line of Arctic atlantification - @camille-lin.bsky.social @polarjournal.bsky.social

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Do Antarctic anchorages have an impact? | Polar Journal Never-before-seen images filmed in Antarctica show traces of anchoring on a deep, untouched seabed. Without concluding that there is a definite impact, a study invites us to consider the potential eff...

Do Antarctic anchorages have an impact? - @camille-lin.bsky.social @polarjournal.bsky.social

polarjournal.net/do-antarctic...

Will the Trump administration's budget cuts have an impact on Antarctic protection ? | Polar Journal The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is cutting funding for polar research in the USA. Could these disruptions to Antarctic research have an impact on Antarctic protection? In an interview, ...

DOGE cuts back on scientific activities in Antarctica, but what about Antarctic governance? A former US diplomat specializing in polar affairs, explains the implications of US decline in Antarctica, in an interview at @polarjournal.
polarjournal.net/will-the-tru...

Nuuk prison more than full | Polar Journal A European report describes the conditions of detention in Nuuk prison and denounces a number of shortcomings, while also describing its positive aspects.

Is deprivation of liberty decent in Nuuk? That's what the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) checked in Unit A of the island's only closed prison.
polarjournal.net/nuuk-prison-...

#Right #Prison #Greenland #Danemark

🔹 A new fleet of merchant ships for the Russian #Arctic ?
🔹 The #CNFRAA gains in attractiveness ?
🔹 Norway takes a closer look at #Antarctic clouds?
The answers here
👉polarjournal.net/the-polar-retrospective-...

We open the doors🗝 to Illu Art and Science Hub in Ilulissat, with Siri Veland (geographer), Skade Henriksen (artist), Anna Lindal (artist), and Marie Stougaard Østertorn (student and activist).
👉https://polarjournal.net/illu-science-and-art-hub-a.../
#Arctic #climatechange #polarjournal #ilulissat

Christening Tara Polar Station | Polar Journal A polar vessel has just been christened in France, in the port of Lorient. The event was attended by a host of polar experts before the ship set sail for the Arctic, where it will operate north of Sva...

🍾 Christening of the Tara Polar Station
Get a closer look at the station designed to drift with the Arctic sea ice. Learn about the vision behind this innovative project, meet the scientists and partners involved, and find out what’s next for the station.

polarjournal.net/christening-...

Everything polar one click away | Polar Journal

🐋😢 A humpback whale has died in the nets of a krill supertrawler in Antarctic waters. Conservationists warn: these vessels kill whales and deplete their main food source, krill.

Read more about it in our 'Around the Polar World' section on polarjournal.net.

Pele Blytmann and Joel Hansen - fishermen in Disko Bay, Greenland | Polar Journal In the port of Ilulissat, sailors leave and land between the ice every day. We met two of them. They tell us what they like about their profession and the difficulties they face.

Have you ever met any #Greenland #fishermen? 🐟 In the port of Ilulissat, sailors leave and land between the ice every day. We met Pele Blytman and Joel Hansen. They tell us what they like about their profession and the difficulties they face.

Listen to the podcast
👉 polarjournal.net/pele-blytman...

Things we've seen and things we've heard since we arrived in #Ilulissat.
The echo of dogs whining and yelping on the hill opposite the town.
Water running down the forehead of a baptized child.
Fishermen preparing their boats for the open water.
More details soon !
#Greenland #City

The Polar Retrospective - A heckled polar ambition, insights from a megaberg, and biosecurity in Antarctica | Polar Journal The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world's polar regions. This week we look at the steering of France's polar strategy, gliders collecting data from a megaberg and a resea...

The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world’s polar regions. This week we look at the steering of France’s polar strategy, gliders collecting data from a megaberg and a research that shows evidence that biosecurity measures work.

polarjournal.net/the-polar-re...

At the entrance to the Icefjord Center, whose architecture refers to the flight of the snowy owl, we met Karl Sandgreen, the CEO and keeper of the place. Soon a portrait in polarjournal.net. #Arctic #Ice #Museum #Ilulissat

So interesting, is that also true for other places in Antarctica ?

Concordia - "A livable, energy-efficient, easy-to-install system" | Polar Journal The Franco-Italian station is celebrating its twentieth year of operation, perched high above Antarctica. Project manager Patrice Godon tells us about the challenges involved in building the station, ...

🧊 Did you know? The first overwintering at Concordia was launched 20 years ago. Patrice Godon, an engineer from the Institut polaire français explains the technical challenges involved. #Antarctica #Science #Polar #Construction
polarjournal.net/concordia-a-...

Eric Brossier and France Pinczon du Sel - Part I: Tandem in the cold | Polar Journal Attracted by the beauty of the Arctic and in search of rational explanations of how it works, the two partners immersed themselves in a frozen landscape. Ideal conditions in which to meet modern-day I...

⛵ They spent 25 years in the Arctic, do you know the team of the sailing boat "Vagabond"?
Here is the first part of a two-part article series about Eric Brossier and France Pinczon du Sel.
Find out more about it
👉 polarjournal.net/eric-brossie...

#Arctic #Sail #Winter #Inuit

A Message from Greenlanders to the United States and the world. Listen carefully.

❤️🇬🇱🇨🇦CANADA STANDS WITH GREENLAND🇨🇦🇬🇱❤️

#canada #greenland #denmark #usa #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal

Christiane Ritter, a woman in the polar night A Woman in the Polar Night has become a classic of its kind, and is now being reprinted in French. An opportunity to revisit the tale of a polar adventurer like no other.

To mark the reissue of Christiane Ritter's “A Woman in the Polar Night ”, here's a portrait of the author and her book. This housewife's wintering in a trapper's cabin in the 1930s transformed her into a travel writer. #Arctic #Woman #Book #Story #Exploration
polarjournal.net/christiane-r...

Tungus, Yakuts, Dolgans... these ethnic groups live in the vast territory of the #Sakha republic in eastern #Russia, where 9% (on average) of household income comes directly from #nature, according to a study published in PNAS. @pnas.org @hokkaidouniv.bsky.social polarjournal.net/hunting-fish...

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it"
- Hannah Arendt, the origin of totalitarism

A quiet majority is barely audible following #Trump's recent allegations and threats concerning #Greenland. Yet these reactions come from the people most concerned. Here is a range of opinions extracted from the abundance of media reports on the topic. #Arctic polarjournal.net/the-quiet-vo...

Hey nice chart, here is an article about the Arctic sea ice thickness that is also worth it : polarjournal.net/significantl...

Can the MAGA take Greenland with them? This question is in the spotlight since the Trump family's latest trip to the island.
👉polarjournal.net/donald-trump-wants-green...

#Greenland #Island #Trump

A breath of fresh air against a backdrop of recurring #heatwaves in the #Arctic and #Antarctic, and ice-pressured sea and land routes, opens this week, in the polar retrospective. @vendeeglobe.bsky.social @govofnunavut.bsky.social #sea #ice #sailing polarjournal.net/the-polar-re...
Pic : C.L.

Et oui même à Kerguelen, le désert de Morne avance depuis plus de 10 ans. #austral #île #france #écologie

Gabriel Boric becomes the first South American head of state in office to officially visit the South #Pole, but more importantly he is the 3rd in the world. This just goes to show the importance #Chile attaches to the #Antarctic material.
polarjournal.net/the-polar-re...
Picture : Chilean Air Force

Vendredi 3 janvier | Vendée Live YouTube video by Vendée Globe

De retour sur le @vendeeglobe.bsky.social Live aujourd'hui alors que la course a observé des icebergs. Les coureurs sont partagés entre émerveillement et crainte. Ils passent près du cap Horn, à 600 kilomètres des stations scientifiques de la péninsule Antarctique. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtD...

Sécurité : le rêve écologiste bousculé par la réalité de la délinquance Le Figaro a analysé les résultats dans huit grandes villes où le ministère de l’Intérieur dénonce un climat «antisécuritaire». Elles se situent au-dessus de la moyenne des villes de taille comparable ...

Le Figaro a essayé un sondage pour connaitre le parti préféré des Français, résultats : les écologistes... et maintenant ils essayent de leur faire porter le chapeau de l'insécurité avec une enquête à charge. Qui est vert 😆 #France #Politique @lesecologistes.fr

Le Figaro a essayé un sondage pour connaitre le parti préféré des Français, résultats : les écologistes... et maintenant ils essayent de leur faire porter le chapeau de l'insécurité