Wildlife
The jump is calculated to clear the ice edge, and the margin for error is a few centimetres.
Polar desk · Issue 11
An iceberg is a slow motion collapse you can watch for a week
The shape changes daily, and the sound of it cracking carries further than the ship's engine.
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Issue 11
Wildlife
Thermoregulation explains most of the odd postures bears adopt on warm days at the ice edge.
Sky
Aurora australis follows the same physics as its northern twin, but far fewer people are standing under it.
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Photo essay
Cold is a camera problem
Batteries fail first, then fingers. The photographers here carry spares of both and keep the second set warm against the body, which is also the reason so many polar frames are taken in a hurry.
Inside a melt cave on the Morteratsch Glacier, Switzerland.
Editor's note
“The polar regions are treated as a warning and a wallpaper at the same time. Both readings are lazy, and both are easier than describing what the place is actually like on a Tuesday.”
Sigrid Nansen · Editor, Frost
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