Arctic&Antarctic

The SAREX took place in September 2023 near Hershel Island, off the coast of Yukon, Canada. BV oversaw proceedings as US and Canadian search and rescue teams conducted the exercise aboard PONANT’s polar exploration cruise ship Le Commandant Charcot.

Scientists voyage to the Southern Ocean to investigate how climate change impacts the planet’s strongest current

Equipped with thrusters, cameras, sonar and sensors for measuring water temperature, pressure and salinity, the vehicle climbed nearly 150 feet up one slope and descended the other.

A81 broke off Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in February after being weakly tethered to the mainland for years, according to The British Antarctic Survey.

The UK’s new polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough begins its polar science trials in Antarctica this week.

Multi-disciplinary research team will sail more than 3500km south aboard NIWA’s ice-strengthened research vessel.

During the COVID summer of 2020-21, just 15 tourists on two yachts visited Antarctica. But now, tourism is back—and bigger than ever. This season's visitor numbers are up more than 40% over the largest pre-pandemic year.

A new world-leading Antarctic krill aquarium and research facility in Tasmania has taken a major step forward following a key planning approval.

The Canadian Coast Guard’s Arctic operations will resume in May 2023, however, it maintains a permanent, full-time presence in the Arctic year-round

With the Arctic Ocean being twice as sensitive to rapid warming than the global average, evaporation and subsequent changes to the hydrological cycle over northern Eurasia will become even more pronounced in the years to come.

Understanding transport and transformation processes within the carbon cycle is essential to creating global carbon dioxide budgets and therefore also projections for global warming.

Although the vessel is primarily used for icebreaking, it also performs search and rescue, scientific research and environmental response.