Antarctica, 8 January 2013 — Three team members from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
polar research station are the first humans to have ever visited and photographed a newly - discovered 9,000 -
strong colony of...
«In winter, the freezing Arctic air is normally «locked» by
strong circumpolar winds several tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere, known as the stratospheric
polar vortex, so that the cold air is confined near the pole,» said study co-author Marlene Kretschmer from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impacts
Research in Germany, in a press release.