The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seed storage facility located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Also known as the Doomsday Vault, the project aims to preserve the world’s agricultural seeds – derived...
How does the judicial system work in Nunavik, the Arctic region of Norther Québec and can equal access to the system be guaranteed where Western and Inuit culture met? Image: Pixabay All Western societies with a democratic system have long had the access to justice...
The Greenlandic flag “Erfalasorput” flies since 1985 as a sign of national identity. But what further distinguishes this identity and determines the question of “Greenlandicness”? Who determines what it is in the first place? The Autumn session...
One of the last big international expeditions to the Russian Arctic was the “Arctic Century” expedition led by the Swiss Polar Institute and GEOMAR in cooperation with the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. All scientific collaborations...
Roy Price, Donato Giovannelli and Erlendur Bogason are ready to dive over the underwater chimney. Photo: Jacopo Pasotti Thinking of Iceland we imagine volcanoes, rain, open spaces where wind and vapours exhaled from a restless land makes it “like being on the Moon”....
