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  • Article from 23.03.2016 | Last changed: 23.03.2016

    Individual tourism in Antarctica

    A little aircraft

    … for the Antarctic Monitoring penguin colonies in the Antarctic using remote sensing data Tags Antarctica … Travellers to Antarctica who do not join a cruise or yachting …

  • Article from 22.01.2014 | Last changed: 22.01.2014

    Waste oil

    Three barrels of waste oil

    … waste and consist partially or entirely of mineral oil, synthetic or biogenic oil. Environmentally sound management of waste oil is regulated by the Waste Oil … which stipulates that priority must be given to processing waste oils into base oil. Base oil is the basic component of mineral oil used to make lubricants …

  • Article from 23.01.2014 | Last changed: 10.03.2021

    Resource conservation in the manufacturing and consumption domain

    Smoking chimneys of an industrial plant

    … is inextricably bound up with other resources as well. For product use can have an environmental impact on air, water and soil resources, and can even be harmful to … excessive resource use, whereby the following concepts come into play: •    Environmentally sound raw material extraction. •    Promoting production processes …

  • Article from 23.07.2013 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Travellers to the Antarctic

    Visitors to the Antarctic must comply with certain rules to avoid causing harm to the environment.

    … pages to help you plan your journey to the Antarctic in accordance with the high environmental standards in effect and to apply for your permit with us. last update … stay and consider it your personal way to make your journey to the Antarctic as environmentally sound as possible. If you are planning your own trip from Germany as a tourist, journalist, or researcher to the Antarctic and if your trip originates in Germany, you must submit …

  • Article from 11.03.2016 | Last changed: 11.03.2016

    Tourists in Antarctica

    Tourists on the mountain

    … were in the late 1950s and originated in Argentina. Paying travellers accompanied researchers to the South Shetland Islands for the first time in 1958. The … Tour Operators (IAATO) was founded in 1991 to promote and ensure safe and environmentally sound tourism in Antarctica. Now the IAATO has more than 100 members … by Germany, Australia and the UK. See the IAATO website for further information and data on tourism. Zodiac inflatable boats take tourists from cruise ship to shore. …

  • Article from 08.03.2016 | Last changed: 11.03.2016

    Research and logistics in the perpetual ice

    The german Research Station Neumayer 3

    … Research and logistics in the perpetual ice German researchers have been present in … authorised the Neumayer Station III in October 2005, following a comprehensive environmental impact assessment by an international team. Other German stations The … summer. The collected ice cores from the Kohnen station supply comprehensive data on the changes in the Earth’s climate and atmosphere over the past 215,000 …

  • Article from 11.03.2016 | Last changed: 11.03.2016

    Discovery, exploration and conservation of Antarctica

    … Byrd and three other pilots are the first to fly over the South Pole. A joint research expedition by Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand embarks on a … attempted to establish regulations on mineral resource activities in Antarctica. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have … for the Antarctic Monitoring penguin colonies in the Antarctic using remote sensing data Tags Antarctica Antarctic Treaty … Antarctica has been terra incognita for most …

  • Article from 23.07.2013 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Human presence in the Antarctic

    The presence of humans poses a threat to the ecosystem.

    … aside from scientific stations. The people who travel to the Antarctic today are researchers, tourists or journalists. last update on 23.07.2013 In January 1774 the … with complicated logistics and expansive precautionary and security measures. Environmental problems in the Antarctic are caused by human activities. Both tourism … to behave? Visitor Guidelines for the Antarctic The impact of digitisation and big data analysis on the sustainable development of tourism and its environmental impact …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Fauna of the Antarctic

    The Adélie penguin is one of five penguin species which breed in the Antarctic.

    … Risch/ITAW Next Previous Associated content Publications Collection and Analysis of Data on Occurrence, Distribution and Abundance of Cetaceans in the Southern Ocean … for the Antarctic Monitoring penguin colonies in the Antarctic using remote sensing data Tags Antarctica Krill Sicherheitsabstand whale Pinguin seal … What the polar …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Climate of the Antarctic

    Its extremely low temperatures make Antarctica the coldest continent on Earth.

    … on Earth. The lowest temperature recorded on site was measured at the Russian research station Vostok in eastern Antarctica in 1983: -89.6°C. Summer temperatures … change. No other region on Earth is warming at a rate as fast as here. Temperature data from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory collected from research stations on the … Extreme am südlichen Ende der Welt Grundlagen des Klimawandels Related publications Environmental Monitor 2024 Analysis of the historical structural change in the …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Geology of the Antarctic

    The Antarctic continent is located on a continental plate called the Antarctic Plate.

    … different regions. East Antarctica is a continuous land mass covered by ice. The basement is made up of gneiss rock up to 3.8 billion years old which is covered by … underwater sound from airguns How to behave? Visitor Guidelines for the Antarctic Environmentally friendly air conditioning for trains – Field data measurement and analysis on the ICE 3 air-cycle system Tags Antarctic Ocean …

  • Article from 27.01.2016 | Last changed: 29.02.2016

    Satellite-based penguin monitoring

    The retreat of the Antarctic sea ice is also a threat to chinstrap penguins

    … Satellite-based penguin monitoring The retreat of the Antarctic sea ice is also a threat to … in particular in winter along the western Antarctic Peninsula. Meteorological data from the Faraday/Vernadsky station for the month of June indicate a rise in … and in cooperation with science (through the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research − SCAR ) for a system of representative monitoring of Antarctic penguin …